Wigmore Hall 2013/14 Brochure

2013–2014 SEPTEMBER 2013 – JULY 2014 WIGMORE SERIES Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk · Box Office 020 7935 2141

EUROPE’S LEADING VENUE FOR CHAMBER MUSIC AND SONG

Simon Jay Price

Welcome

Benjamin Ealovega

Connoisseurs of fine singing took note when a young soprano made her Wigmore Hall debut on a warm June evening in 1975. Felicity Lott, accompanied by her friend Graham Johnson, immediately connected with the Hall’s audience. Over the past four decades, Dame Felicity’s glittering career has included many exceptional performances here, recognised in 2010 with the award of the prestigious Wigmore Hall Medal. The programme for her Wigmore Hall farewell recital reflects the warmth, charm, humour and humanity of one of Britain’s best-loved artists. All proceeds from this gala evening will go towards our Endowment Fund and monies raised will be matched pound for pound by Arts Council England, so please do support us if you can.

The 1930s have aptly been compared to a dark valley, a steep-sided channel into which the two catastrophic ideas of Fascism and Soviet Communism were funnelled and compressed to bursting point. The era’s artistic record contains haunting and prescient responses to the fear of conflict to come, together with works fuelled by faith in the transforming power of art itself.

Steven Isserlis is the central figure in a four-concert programme certain to evoke the febrile nature and creative ferment that touched composers in Europe and beyond as great events unfolded around them. Music in the Shadow of War, including works by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Poulenc and Martinu˚ , catches the vivid energy of chamber scores conceived as the world lurched from one crisis to the next.

Songlives brings a fascinating new strand to Wigmore Hall’s programme.

The series, overseen by Malcolm Martineau, offers audiences the chance to explore works drawn from specific years or across a single composer’s creative life. It takes wing when Miah Persson, Florian Boesch and Martineau dig deep beneath the surface of Schumann’s song output, tracing its evolution from first steps to late glories. The series unfolds with irresistible combinations of artists and repertoire. The seminal contributions of Debussy and Duparc to the French mélodie supply the musical lifeblood of two recitals, one by Lucy Crowe and Christopher Maltman in October, the other by Sarah Connolly and Henk Neven in April. Other Songlives highlights include Christoph Prégardien’s account of Schubert’s songs from 1825 and Christiane Karg and Michael Schade’s ‘first to last’ overview of the Lieder of Richard Strauss.

Boundary breaking comes naturally to Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata.

Although the Paris-based ensemble and its charismatic founder are steeped in 17th-century performance practices, they also understand the importance of improvisation and spontaneous invention to the true spirit of Baroque music.Their fusions of jazz and folk elements with early music styles invariably set creative sparks flying.

Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s second ever Composer in Residence, began composing at the age of eleven, at first as a way of avoiding playing football.

He was soon able to imagine complete works and write them down. ‘The major influences on my musical development,’ he notes, ‘include Olivier Messiaen, Gregorian chant, the Blues and the sound of bells.’ He has been described by The Times as ‘a composer to cherish’ and students come from all corners of the world to study with him at the Guildhall. His list of forthcoming performances and commissions, meanwhile, underlines the international profile and significance of his work and audiences will experience his influence throughout the season.

Piano enthusiasts will need no urging to make five dates with our Artist in Residence Marc-André Hamelin. His musical passions and personal interests are reflected in his decision to twin excerpts from Janácˇek’s On an overgrown path with the phantasmagorical twists and turns of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. He partners Anthony Marwood and Martin Fröst for a performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale Suite, and in 2014 joins the Pacifica Quartet for Dvorˇák’s Piano Quintet in A, and the Takács Quartet for Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet.

The Jerusalem Quartet arrives at Wigmore Hall in November to begin a Season-long exploration of Shostakovich’s fifteen string quartets, intimate works in which he felt free to reveal aspects of his personality, autobiographical ruminations and musical ideas that would have fallen foul of Soviet dogma if paraded in compositions of a more ‘public’ nature.

The roots of András Schiff ’s life-affirming artistry can be traced to childhood lessons in Budapest in the late 1950s and studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and with George Malcolm in London. Among his many signal

achievements, Schiff helped liberate Bach’s keyboard music from the increasingly narrow confines of period instrument performance in the 1970s and went on to develop revelatory readings of the composer’s landmark compositions. He follows his sold-out cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas with five all-Bach recitals this Season, including both books of The Well-tempered Clavier and the Partitas. Schiff is set to crown his achievement when he celebrates his 60th birthday on 21 December by performing Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Bach’s Goldberg Variations in one extraordinary Wigmore Hall evening.

Recent discoveries in neuroscience suggest that there was far greater substance to Michael Tippett’s long creative engagement with psychology and the multiple layers of human consciousness than many of his contemporary critics were ready to accept. We return to the composer’s output, in company with the Heath Quartet, Craig Ogden, Steven Osborne and Mark Padmore, for what promises to be a revelatory four-concert Tippett Celebration.

With memories fresh in the mind of their sparkling Monteverdi recital at Wigmore Hall last summer, there’s sure to be a clamour for tickets to hear Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset this Season. The period instrument ensemble and its dynamic director have contributed massively to the rediscovery of music of the French Baroque and the recreation of its essential spirit for modern ears. Their burgeoning involvement in our Early Music and Baroque Series extends to four concerts in 2013/14, including a tribute to Jean-Philippe Rameau – to mark the 250th anniversary of his death in 1764 – and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres and François Couperin’s witty and constructive response to the musical style of Italy, then predominant in France, enshrined in his L’Apothéose de Corelli and L’Apothéose de Lully.

Born in the Austrian city of Graz in 1882, Joseph Marx devoted much of his long life to the creation of song. Pianist Simon Lepper leads a revealing three-concert series devoted to the composer’s Lieder, opening with a carefully chosen selection of settings by Marx and Hugo Wolf of texts from Heyse’s Italienisches Liederbuch.

Later in the season we have a special residency for baritone Gerald Finley and an appearance from Yo-Yo Ma. Full details are included in the Season brochure. Watch out too for spotlights on Steven Osborne, Julia Fischer and the Elias String Quartet (in Beethoven).

There is so much more I could mention but space does not allow me, so please enjoy reading the brochure for yourself. I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall again during the year ahead.

John Gilhooly Director

SERIES AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2013

See pages 4 – 106 for full details of these concerts and page 107 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for…

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition

Mon 9 Sep

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Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau

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Menahem Pressler and Friends

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Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi

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Ian Bostridge: Schubert Lieder

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Music in the Shadow of War

12–13

Joshua Redman Jazz Series

14, 22, 93, 104

Matthias Goerne: A Celebration

16, 17

Vox Luminis

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Spotlight on Steven Osborne

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Isabelle Faust

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Songlives

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L’Arpeggiata Baroque Residency

30–31, 37, 51

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber

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Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

38, 77, 97

Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

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EXAUDI

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Nash Ensemble American Series

44–45, 53, 59, 89

Takács Quartet Associate Artists

43, 46

Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

48

Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’

50 54, 55, 63, 65, 67

Tippett: A Retrospective Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

53, 58 60, 89, 92, 94

Joseph Marx Song Series

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Mitsuko Uchida & Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

65

Les Arts Florissants/William Christie

66

Pinchas Zukerman

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Sonia Prina/Ensemble Claudiana/Luca Pianca

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Chamber Music Season

28, 87, 105

The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Contemporary Music Series

Anne Schwanewilms Page 5 Roger Vignoles Christian Blackshaw 9 Robin Tritschler/Iain Burnside 15 Cuarteto Casals 18 Steven Isserlis/Stephen Hough 23 Quatuor Apollon Musagète 29 Doric String Quartet 33 Alexandre Tharaud 35 ATOS Trio 39 Takács Quartet 43 Pavel Haas Quartet 49 Tabea Zimmermann/Igor Levit 53 Elena Urioste / Michael Brown 56 Mark Simpson/ Vikingur Olafsson 61 Francesco Piemontesi 63

24–25, 32, 35

Daniil Trifonov

András Schiff Bach Series

Mon 16 Sep Mon 23 Sep Mon 30 Sep Mon 7 Oct Mon 14 Oct Mon 21 Oct Mon 28 Oct Mon 4 Nov Mon 11 Nov Mon 18 Nov Mon 25 Nov Mon 2 Dec Mon 9 Dec Mon 16 Dec

Tue 12 Nov

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Mon 9 Sep Sun 15 Sep Tue 17 Sep

Thu 19 Sep Mon 23 Sep Thu 3 Oct Fri 4 Oct Wed 9 Oct Sat 12 Oct Sun 13 Oct Wed 16 Oct Sat 19 Oct Thu 24 Oct Sat 26 Oct Thu 31 Oct Fri 1 Nov Sat 2 Nov

Sun 3 Nov Fri 8 Nov Sat 9 Nov Sun 10 Nov

Menahem Pressler/Alexander Kerr Lawrence Power/Paul Watkins quartet-lab Steven Isserlis/Adam Walker Anthony Marwood/Lawrence Power Lucy Wakeford/Alexander Melnikov The Sitkovetsky Trio Arcanto Quartet IMS Prussia Cove Isabelle Faust Philip Higham Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice Quatuor Ebène/Antoine Tamestit Arditti Quartet Quatuor Diotima Matthew Barley Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton Janine Jansen/Torleif Thedéen Itamar Golan Belcea Quartet Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Claire Booth/Adam Walker Mark Simpson/András Keller Paul Silverthorne/Cédric Tiberghien Xuefei Yang Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin Nash Ensemble Takács Quartet/Lawrence Power

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Wed 13 Nov Thu 14 Nov Sun 17 Nov Mon 18 Nov Fri 22 Nov Thu 28 Nov Sun 1 Dec Mon 2 Dec Tue 3 Dec Wed 4 Dec Sat 7 Dec Mon 9 Dec Wed 11 Dec Wed 11 Dec Mon 16 Dec Tue 17 Dec Fri 20 Dec Sun 22 Dec Sat 28 Dec Sun 29 Dec

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Sun 8 Sep Sun 15 Sep Sun 22 Sep Sun 29 Sep Sun 6 Oct Sun 13 Oct Sun 20 Oct Sun 27 Oct Sun 3 Nov Sun 10 Nov Sun 17 Nov Sun 24 Nov Sun 1 Dec

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Page Jerusalem Quartet Elisabeth Leonskaja Julia Fischer/Milana Chernyavska Jerusalem Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Razumovsky Ensemble Fabio Zanon The Schubert Ensemble Carolin Widmann Jean-Guihen Queyras Pavel Haas Quartet/Daniil Trifonov Heath Quartet/Mark Padmore James Baillieu Belcea Quartet Nash Ensemble Pieter Wispelwey Britten Sinfonia The Endellion String Quartet Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan Mitsuko Uchida/Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Pinchas Zukerman/Angela Cheng Emmanuel Pahud/Christian Rivet Vadim Gluzman /Angela Yoffe Bennewitz Quartet

Sun 8 Dec Sun 15 Dec Sun 22 Dec Sun 29 Dec

Škampa Quartet Philippe Graffin/Claire Désert Arcanto Quartet Jan Lisiecki Prazˇák Quartet Andreas Brantelid Peter Friis Johansson Vanbrugh Quartet Musicians from the Scottish Ensemble/Alasdair Beatson Arcadia Quartet Julian Bliss/Robert Bottriell Natalie Clein /Tamara Stefanovich Nash Ensemble/Marianne Thorsen Ian Brown Spencer Myer Raphael Wallfisch/John York Mandelring Quartet Gould Piano Trio Quartetto di Cremona

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London Pianoforte Series Wed 11 Sep Wed 18 Sep Sat 21 Sep Sat 28 Sep Tue 1 Oct Tue 8 Oct Mon 14 Oct Sat 19 Oct Fri 25 Oct Mon 4 Nov Sat 23 Nov Tue 26 Nov Fri 29 Nov Sun 8 Dec Tue 10 Dec Sat 14 Dec Wed 18 Dec Sat 21 Dec

Nelson Goerner Inon Barnatan Denis Kozhukhin Kristian Bezuidenhout Steven Osborne Daniil Trifonov Benjamin Grosvenor Imogen Cooper Oleg Maisenberg Marc-André Hamelin András Schiff András Schiff András Schiff Angela Hewitt Roman Rabinovich András Schiff András Schiff András Schiff

Song Recital Series Page 7 11 11 17 20 26 29 33 34 40 54 55 55 59 61 63 65 67

Sat 7 Sep Tue 10 Sep Fri 13 Sep Sat 14 Sep Wed 25 Sep Thu 26 Sep Fri 27 Sep Mon 30 Sep Wed 2 Oct Sat 5 Oct Fri 11 Oct Sat 12 Oct Thu 17 Oct Sun 27 Oct Mon 28 Oct Tue 29 Oct

Early Music and Baroque Series Thu 12 Sep Tue 24 Sep

Sun 29 Sep Thu 10 Oct Tue 15 Oct Fri 18 Oct Wed 23 Oct Wed 30 Oct Wed 6 Nov Wed 20 Nov Wed 27 Nov Fri 6 Dec Thu 12 Dec

Thu 19 Dec

Mon 23 Dec

Thu 30 Dec Fri 31 Dec

Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi Classical Opera/Ian Page Ailish Tynan /Sarah Fox/ Mary Bevan Andrew Kennedy/Allan Clayton Vox Luminis L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar The English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock Nadia Zwiener Viktoria Mullova/Accademia Bizantina Ottavio Dantone Florilegium/Ashley Solomon Robin Blaze Trevor Pinnock EXAUDI The English Concert/Harry Bicket Sally Matthews Early Opera Company Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny Sophie Daneman/Anna Starushkevych Paul Agnew Les Arts Florissants William Christie/Emmanuelle de Negri Anna Reinhold/Cyril Auvity Marc Mauillon/Lisandro Abadie The King’s Consort/Robert King Julie Cooper/Rebecca Outram Robin Blaze/David Gould James Oxley/David de Winter David Wilson-Johnson/Philip Tebb Sonia Prina/Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca Classical Opera/Ian Page/Sarah Fox Anna Devin /Martene Grimson, Anthony Gregory/Mark Stone Matthew Rose

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Tue 5 Nov Fri 15 Nov Sat 16 Nov Sun 17 Nov Tue 19 Nov Fri 22 Nov Sat 30 Nov Tue 3 Dec Thu 5 Dec Fri 13 Dec Sun 15 Dec

Sun 9 Feb 2014

Bryn Terfel/ Simon Keenlyside Page 6 Malcolm Martineau Roman Trekel/Malcolm Martineau 5 Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 10 Thomas Hampson/Wolfram Rieger 7 Matthias Goerne/Sarah Christ 16 Angelika Kirchschlager 17 Helmut Deutsch Matthias Goerne/Andreas Haefliger 17 Sasha Cooke/Julius Drake 18 Juliane Banse/Wolfram Rieger 21 Miah Persson/Florian Boesch 25 Malcolm Martineau Toby Spence/Julian Milford 23 Christine Rice/Nash Ensemble 27 Christiane Karg/Michael Schade 32 Malcolm Martineau Larissa Gergieva/Singers from 35 the Mariinsky Academy Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 36 Lucy Crowe/Christopher Maltman 35 Malcolm Martineau Samling Showcase 41 Dame Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson 52 Wolfgang Holzmair/Imogen Cooper 47 Andrew Foster-Williams/Simon Lepper 47 Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 49 The Prince Consort 51 Jacques Imbrailo/Alisdair Hogarth 55 Mark Padmore/James Baillieu 58 Heath Quartet Michelle Breedt/Nina Schumann 57 Michael Volle/Helmut Deutsch 63 Elizabeth Watts/Clara Mouriz 64 Roderick Williams/Simon Lepper

Sun 9 Mar 2014 Wed 19 Mar 2014 Wed 19 Mar 2014 Wed 26 Mar 2014 Sun 6 Apr 2014 Mon 7 Apr 2014 Mon 14 Apr 2014 Sun 27 Apr 2014 Wed 7 May 2014 Fri 9 May 2014 Thu 15 May 2014 Tue 3 Jun 2014 Fri 20 Jun 2014

Joshua Redman Jazz Series Booking for all the following concerts opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Joshua Redman/Håkon Kornstad 14 Luciana Souza/Patrick Zimmerli 22 Joshua Redman/Satoshi Takeishi 93 Thu 24 Apr 2014 Scott Colley/Escher String Quartet Tue 8 Jul 2014 Django Bates/Peter Bruun 104 Petter Eldh Fri 20 Sep Sun 6 Oct

Wigmore Hall Learning Sat 14 Sep Sat 21 Sep Sat 28 Sep Fri 4 Oct

Contemporary Music Series

Sat 5 Oct Wed 16 Oct

Booking for all the following concerts opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Thu 17 Oct Tue 29 Oct Wed 30 Oct

Wed 18 Sep Inon Barnatan Quatuor Ebène/Antoine Tamestit Sun 13 Oct Arditti Quartet Wed 16 Oct Quatuor Diotima Sat 19 Oct Matthew Barley Thu 24 Oct Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber Mon 28 Oct Julian Anderson Day Sat 2 Nov Xuefei Yang Sun 3 Nov EXAUDI Wed 6 Nov The Prince Consort Fri 22 Nov Wed 11 Dec Britten Sinfonia Apartment House Sat 4 Jan 2014 Thu 23 Jan 2014 JACK Quartet Wed 5 Feb 2014 Roderick Williams/Joy Farrall

Huw Watkins/Britten Sinfonia Voices/Eamonn Dougan

11 27 29 32 34 36 38 39 42 51 62 74 77 80

Aurora Orchestra Page 80 Alice Coote/Allan Clayton Brentano String Quartet 86 Britten Sinfonia 87 Marino Formenti 87 Nash Ensemble/Claire Booth 89 Richard Hosford Momo Kodama 91 Colin Currie 91 The Chamber Music Society of 92 Lincoln Center Ensemble intercontemporain 94 Britten Sinfonia 95 Quatuor Ebène (The Other Ebène) 96 Arditti Quartet 97 Lawrence Zazzo/Simon Lepper 99 Birmingham Contemporary 102 Music Group

Thu 31 Oct Fri 1 Nov Sat 2 Nov Wed 6 Nov Wed 6 Nov Sat 9 Nov Sat 16 Nov Fri 22 Nov Tue 26 Nov Thu 28 Nov Sat 30 Nov Tue 3 Dec Wed 11 Dec Sun 15 Dec Fri 20 Dec

Family Day: Travels Through Time Open House Day Pre-Concert Talk Aurora Orchestra Schools’ Concert Aurora Orchestra Family Concert Artists in Conversation Olaf Bär Masterclass Half-Term Family Day: Songlives Half-Term Course: Ignition Half-Term Course: Ignition Pre-Concert Talk Julian Anderson Day Arcadia Quartet Schools’ Concert Pre-Concert Talk Pre-Concert Talk Brass Jaw Family Concert Pre-Concert Talk Wigmore Study Group Wigmore Study Group Come and Sing: Tippett Wigmore Study Group Pre-Concert Talk Pre-Concert Talk András Schiff Lecture-Recital

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Wigmore Hall/ 2013 Kohn Foundation

International

The 8th biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition will take place in Wigmore Hall from 30 August to 3 September 2013

Song

JURY John Gilhooly Chair, Pieter Alferink, Barbara Bonney, Robert Gambill, Graham Johnson OBE, Sir Ralph Kohn (non-voting), Ann Murray DBE, Christoph Prégardien, Asadour Santourian

Competition

Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997 Friday 30 August 11.00 am and 2.00 pm

This Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to perform in at least three languages.

At the same time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre.

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 1 Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme All day £12.50 concs £10

Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers Audiences are invited to attend the Preliminary and Semi-Final rounds, as well as the grand finale and Prize-giving on Tuesday 3 September which will include an Interval Supper.

Saturday 31 August 11.00 am and 2.00 pm

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 2 Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme All day £12.50 concs £10

Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Sunday 1 September 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm

SEMI-FINAL STAGE 12 Semi-finalists will each perform a 20-minute programme All day £15 concs £12 Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm.

Please contact the Wigmore Hall Restaurant to make your supper reservation.

Book for the first three stages at the same time for £30 concs £25

Tuesday 3 September 6.00 pm

FINAL STAGE AND PRIZE-GIVING Four singers will each give a recital of 30 minutes £15 £20 £25 £30 Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from approx. 8.20 pm to 9.30 pm.

Please contact the Wigmore Hall Restaurant to make your supper reservation.

Song Recital Series

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WIGMORE SERIES AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2013

Booking Opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May, and to the General Public/Online on 31 May

September Saturday 7 September 7.30 pm

Monday 9 September 1.00 pm

Monday 9 September 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Anne Schwanewilms soprano Roger Vignoles piano

Menahem Pressler & Friends

Debussy Proses lyriques Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39

See page 6 for full details

Sunday 8 September 11.30 am

Škampa Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in B b Op. 18 No. 6 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op.13 Mendelssohn was only eighteen when he wrote his first string quartet (later numbered as his second).

The young composer, inspired by Beethoven’s string quartets, created a fine balance of Classical purity and Romantic expression in his Op. 13 score. The Škampa Quartet opens with Beethoven’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6, a youthful work crowned by its visionary finale.

Tuesday 10 September 7.30 pm

Ranked by the journalist and musicologist Michael Kennedy among ‘the leading lyric Strauss singers of the day’, Anne Schwanewilms reaches out to audiences with her rare blend of vocal warmth, dramatic artistry, wit and charm. ‘I love to sing,’ observes the German soprano. ‘It is a must for me, and a dream.’ £12.50 concs £10

Roman Trekel baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Dichterliebe Schoenberg Warnung; Erwartung; Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm; Erhebung Zemlinsky Entbietung; Meeraugen Strauss Four Last Songs Roman Trekel has devised a programme hallmarked by insight into the nature of Romantic love and attachment. The German baritone journeys through the turbulent emotional world of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, explores the eroticism of Schoenberg’s ‘Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm’, a sensual appeal by Jesus to Mary Magdalene, and arrives finally at Strauss’s valedictory Four Last Songs.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Škampa Quartet

See page 8 for full details

Valentin Georgiev

Anne Schwanewilms

Javier del Real

Roman Trekel

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Simon Keenlyside baritone

Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Saturday 7 September 7.30 pm

Simon Keenlyside baritone Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Programme includes songs by Schumann and Schubert Anyone in search of definitive qualities for the singing of our time could do no better than to begin with the work of these artists. Bryn Terfel’s ability to connect with audiences of all backgrounds and ages rests on his incredible vocal powers and gift for communication. There is a comparable charisma and intense presence about Simon Keenlyside, who brings words and poetic images to pulsating life on stage and in the concert hall. And Malcolm Martineau has also played a vital role in developing the multifaceted colours and individuality of their rich music-making. Wigmore Hall’s 2013/14 Season begins here with a recital sure to deliver captivating expressive insights that will live long in the memory. £20 £35 £50 £65 Booking limited to two tickets only per person

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013 /14 Wigmore Series Song Recital Series Opening Concert of the 2013 /14 Season Photo of Simon Keenlyside by Benjamin Ealovega Photo of Bryn Terfel by Brian Tarr

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September Friday 13 September 7.30 pm

NELSON GOERNER PORTRAIT SERIES

EUROPA GALANTE FABIO BIONDI

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano See page 10 for full details Saturday 14 September 7.30 pm

Thomas Hampson baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Nelson Goerner

Jean-Baptiste Millot

Nelson Goerner’s pianism is hallmarked by poetic intuition, breadth of nuance and enchanting finesse. Small wonder that his artistry has been acclaimed for its ‘combination of glorious depth and richness of tone with fine musical intelligence’. The Argentinean artist returns to Wigmore Hall for the second of four concerts in his ‘Portrait’ series.

Wednesday 11 September 7.30 pm

Nelson Goerner piano Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282 Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Europa Galante

Ana de Labra

Nelson Goerner Jean-Baptiste Millot Thursday 12 September 7.30 pm

Europa Galante Fabio Biondi director, violin Vivaldi Sinfonia in G RV149 Vivaldi From La stravaganza: Violin Concerto in A minor RV357; Violin Concerto in E minor RV279; Violin Concerto in Bb RV383a Vivaldi Sinfonia from Ercole su’l Termodonte RV710 Vivaldi From La stravaganza: Violin Concerto in F RV284; Violin Concerto in D RV204; Violin Concerto in F RV291

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wigmore Hall’s Early Music and Baroque Series gets underway in style with a visit from Europa Galante and its visionary leader Fabio Biondi.

Europa Galante came into being in 1990 as the realisation of violinist Biondi’s wish to create an Italian period instrument ensemble of the highest quality with a groundbreaking approach to historically informed performance.

Its work since has set a compelling balance between scholarship and spontaneity, fashioning interpretations that direct listeners to the edge of their seats and critics to produce superlatives of praise and admiration.

Over the years, Europa Galante has revived countless neglected masterworks and appeared at the world’s leading concert halls and festivals, from La Scala to the Sydney Opera House.

Friday 21 February 2014 7.30 pm

£18 £25 £30 £35

Saturday 17 May 2014 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Nelson Goerner explores three works drawn from the heart of his repertoire, brought together to create a musical and spiritual journey. He begins with Mozart’s Piano Sonata in E flat K282, an experimental work from a young composer, and continues with explorations of Schumann’s ‘fantasies for piano’, Kreisleriana, and Schubert’s sublime final Piano Sonata in B flat D960. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/ Nelson Goerner Portrait Series

Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Scheiden und Meiden; Trost im Unglück; Aus! Aus!; Nicht wiedersehen!; From Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: Die zwei blauen Augen; From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Lied des Verfolgten im Turm; Der Schildwache Nachtlied; Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz; Revelge Zemlinsky Entbietung Webern Aufblick; Tief von Fern Strauss Befreit Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt Schoenberg Erwartung Mahler From Five Rückert Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft; Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder; Um Mitternacht; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Wigmore Hall’s glorious Season opening week concludes with a visit from the American baritone Thomas Hampson, who made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1984 and has held audiences spellbound at the Hall many times since. In addition to his distinguished operatic interpretations and award-winning recordings, Hampson’s affinity for the songs of Gustav Mahler and the great landmarks of the song repertoire have further underlined his status as one of the most musical and sophisticated singers of modern times. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

Thomas Hampson

Dario Acosta

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Menahem Pressler and Friends Monday 9 September 7.30 pm

Menahem Pressler piano Alexander Kerr violin Lawrence Power viola Paul Watkins cello Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Turina Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 67 Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87 Menahem Pressler, born in December 1923, has lived a remarkable life by any measure. His artistry bears witness to his experience as a refugee from Nazi Germany, a firebrand young soloist, an inspirational teacher and one of the world’s greatest chamber musicians. The New York Times described him as ‘a poet, time and again revealing unexpected depths in works that have been endlessly plumbed and surveyed.’

The insightfulness of Pressler’s interpretations continues to astonish and beguile, while the spirit of his work with younger colleagues remains as generous and collegial as ever. He joins forces with three close friends and musical partners for Wigmore Hall’s tribute to his life and work. £15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season

Photo by Marco Borggreve

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September Sunday 15 September 11.30 am

Monday 16 September 1.00 pm

QUARTET-LAB

Philippe Graffin violin Claire Désert piano

Christian Blackshaw piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D784 Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17

Dohnányi Ruralia hungarica ‘Andante rubato’ Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’ Ravel Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré Ravel Violin Sonata

Following his revelatory cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas, Christian Blackshaw returns to Wigmore Hall for a lunchtime recital built upon two cornerstones of 19th-century music. Schubert’s darkly introspective Piano Sonata in A minor, completed in 1823 following its composer’s recovery from illness, was posthumously published in 1839, the same year in which Schumann’s impassioned Fantasy in C first appeared in print.

Paris and the influence of La Belle Époque help connect the works in this Coffee Concert programme.

The dazzling violin and piano team of Philippe Graffin and Claire Désert include George Enescu’s third violin sonata of 1926, which combines invaluable lessons learned by the composer from his French contemporaries with intimate recollections of melodies from his childhood in Romania.

£12.50 concs £10

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

quartet-lab

Chris Dodd

Sunday 15 September 7.30 pm

quartet-lab Pekka Kuusisto violin Patricia Kopatchinskaja Lilli Maijala viola Pieter Wispelwey cello

Tuesday 17 September 7.30 pm

Music in the Shadow of War See pages 12 –13 for full details

violin

Mozart Divertimento in D K136 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 The musicians of quartet-lab will perform additional works, to be announced from the stage.

Four renowned instrumentalists combine to form quartet-lab, a collective devoted to the exploration and expansion of the string quartet repertoire. The ensemble’s members, acclaimed for their work as soloists, also connect powerfully with the art of improvisation through traditional music from their native countries. This programme travels from Mozart’s flamboyant early Divertimento K136 and Beethoven’s experimental ‘Serioso’ Quartet to Britten’s second string quartet, which received its world première at Wigmore Hall in 1945. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season Philippe Graffin

Marco Borggreve

Christian Blackshaw

James Hill

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Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder Schubert’s biography and creative development can be traced through his Lieder. Ian Bostridge is set to chart the expressive depths, lyrical inflections and psychological insights of the composer’s work in a series of recitals at Wigmore Hall this season and next, beginning with inspired settings of texts by Johann Mayrhofer and Goethe placed in fine company with a selection of early and late songs. The tenor’s eloquent feeling for words and music in Schubert, developed and refined over more than two decades, runs deep. His acclaimed interpretations strike a balance between the formal craft and concision of Schubert’s writing and its parallel qualities of spiritual vision and philosophical reflection.

Friday 13 September 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Schubert Der Strom; Auf der Donau; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Nachtstück; Viola; Abendstern; Gondelfahrer; Auflösung; Widerschein; Alinde; Rastlose Liebe; Geheimes; Versunken; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne; Strophe aus ‘die Götter Griechenlands’ ‘After silence,’ observed Aldous Huxley, ‘that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.’ The seemingly infinite expressive range and invention of Schubert’s songs, explored in depth by Ian Bostridge in his Wigmore Hall Schubert Series, inform everything from the wild energy of ‘Der Strom’ to the rapt contemplation of his sublime setting of ‘Die Sterne’. £18 £25 £30 £35 Song Recital Series /Ian Bostridge: Schubert Lieder

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 22 May 2014 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano See page 98 for full details Friday 17 October 2014 7.30 pm Saturday 16 May 2015 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Photo by EMI/Simon Fowler

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September Wednesday 18 September 7.30 pm

Thursday 19 September 7.30 pm

Friday 20 September 7.30 pm

Joshua Redman saxophone Håkon Kornstad saxophone, tenor

Inon Barnatan piano

The Sitkovetsky Trio

Debussy Suite bergamasque Ronald Stevenson Peter Grimes Fantasy on themes from Britten Ravel La valse Matthias Pintscher New commission (world première)* Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959

Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Leonard Elschenbroich cello Wu Qian piano

*Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Aspen Music Festival, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Within a year of its foundation by three students at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Sitkovetsky Trio took first prize in the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award 2008 and made its Wigmore Hall debut. The young ensemble’s perceptive musicianship was recently compared by the Independent to that of ‘the Beaux Arts Trio in its heyday’.

Wigmore Hall Debut

£15 £20 £25 £30

International interest followed Denis Kozhukhin’s victory in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels. Born to a musical family in Nizhny Novgorod in Russia’s heartlands, he studied at the Balakirev School of Music and at the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid.

The 27-year old makes his Wigmore Hall debut in a programme of rich diversity, correspondences and contrasts.

Le Figaro has written of his ‘impeccable musicality and phrasing’, while Gramophone described him as a ‘born Schubertian’. Inon Barnatan’s artistic journey continues this season with a typically thought-provoking and engaging programme, complete with the first performance of a specially commissioned work by Matthias Pintscher and Ronald Stevenson’s thrilling Peter Grimes Fantasy. £15 £20 £25 £30

Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

JOSHUA REDMAN JAZZ SERIES See page 14 for full details

Saturday 21 September 7.30 pm

Denis Kozhukhin piano Haydn Piano Sonata in F HXVI:23 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 Hindemith Piano Sonata No. 3 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

Inon Barnatan

Marco Borggreve

The Sitkovetsky Trio

Denis Kozhukhin

Paul Marc Mitchell

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Music in the The 1930s have aptly been compared to a dark valley, a steep-sided channel into which the two catastrophic ideas of Fascism and Soviet Communism were funnelled and compressed to bursting point. The era’s artistic record contains haunting and prescient responses to the fear of conflict to come, together with works fuelled by faith in the transforming power of art itself. Steven Isserlis is the central figure in a four-concert programme certain to evoke the febrile nature and creative ferment that touched composers in Europe and beyond as great events unfolded around them. Music in the Shadow of War, including works by Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Poulenc and Martinu° , catches the vivid energy of chamber scores conceived as the world lurched from one crisis to the next.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 1 February 2014 7.30 pm Steven Isserlis

Satoshi Aoyagi

Tuesday 17 September 7.30 pm

Adam Walker flute Anthony Marwood violin Lawrence Power viola Steven Isserlis cello Lucy Wakeford harp Alexander Melnikov piano Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Wartime anxieties variously conditioned the works in this programme. Bridge began his two-movement cello sonata in 1913 and worked on it as World War I unfolded.

Debussy took refuge from depressing news of bloody battles on the Western Front in his sonata of 1915, while Shostakovich turned in 1943– 44 to Russian and Jewish folk themes to create a powerful memorial work to his closest friend. £18 £25 £30 £35 Chamber Music Season / Music in the Shadow of War

Janine Jansen violin Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano Izabella Simon piano See page 79 for full details Saturday 5 April 2014 7.30 pm

Joshua Bell violin Henning Kraggerud violin Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano See page 90 for full details Friday 11 July 2014 10.00 pm

Michael Collins clarinet Veronika Eberle violin Steven Isserlis cello Alexander Melnikov piano See page 105 for full details

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Joshua Redman Jazz Series Jazz at Wigmore Hall continues this season under the direction of American saxophonist and composer Joshua Redman as his series featuring a world-class roster of artists unfolds.

Friday 20 September 7.30 pm

Joshua Redman saxophone Håkon Kornstad saxophone, tenor A rare occasion indeed – a concert bringing together Joshua Redman, the celebrated American saxophonist, and Håkon Kornstad, the acclaimed Norwegian saxophonist and operatic tenor. Each musician has been nominated for several Grammys in their respective homelands, and each has the deserved reputation for always bringing something new and fresh to the jazz idiom. The concert will feature solo as well as duo performances.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval £15 £20 £25 £30

Sunday 6 October 7.30 pm

Luciana Souza

voice Pianist to be announced

Patrick Zimmerli saxophone

See page 22 for full details £15 £20 £25 £30

Thursday 24 April 2014 7.30 pm

Joshua Redman saxophone Satoshi Takeishi percussion Scott Colley double bass Escher String Quartet ASPECTS OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT

See page 93 for full details £15 £20 £25 £30

Tuesday 8 July 2014 7.30 pm

Django Bates piano Peter Bruun drums Petter Eldh double bass Django Bates and his trio ‘Beloved’ explore the music of Charlie Parker See page 104 for full details £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May and to the General Public on 31 May. Joshua Redman Jazz Series

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Photo by IMN

September Sunday 22 September 11.30 am

Monday 23 September 7.30 pm

Tuesday 24 September 7.30 pm

Arcanto Quartet

Arcanto Quartet

Classical Opera

Mozart String Quartet in A K464 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135

Bach The Art of Fugue (extracts) Hindemith String Quartet No. 5 Op. 32 Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’

Ailish Tynan soprano (as Weltgeist) Sarah Fox soprano (as Barmherzigkeit) Mary Bevan soprano (as Gerechtigkeit) Andrew Kennedy tenor (as Christgeist) Allan Clayton tenor (as Christ)

The combined experience and musical vision of Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras underpin the arresting eloquence of Arcanto Quartet interpretations. They perform Mozart’s String Quartet in A K464, inspired by the music of Haydn, and Beethoven’s final essay in the string quartet genre, a masterwork of fathomless depths and expressive nuances. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Art and craft coalesced in Bach’s peerless compositions. The Art of Fugue, a collection of fugues and canons created in the 1740s, transcends the boundaries of strict counterpoint to touch the sublime. The Arcanto Quartet sets extracts from Bach’s score in company with Hindemith’s fifth string quartet, written in the early 1920s under the influence of the ‘New Sobriety’ movement in art. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season Monday 23 September 1.00 pm

Mozart Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots K35 To mark the release of its new recording of the work, Classical Opera performs Mozart’s remarkable sacred singspiel, ‘The Obligation of the First Commandment’, created when he was just eleven.

The music’s tender beauty, dynamism and descriptive flair bear witness to the young composer’s innate empathy for humanity’s desire to understand and experience matters spiritual.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 25 minutes in duration, without an interval

Robin Tritschler tenor Iain Burnside piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente Schubert O Quell, was strömst du rasch und wild; Im Frühling; Im Freien; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Ständchen; An Silvia Britten Oft in the stilly night; The minstrel boy; Rich and Rare; At the mid hour of night; The last rose of summer Since winning the Song Prize at the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Award, the Irish tenor Robin Tritschler has made great strides as concert artist and opera soloist. The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, hailed for his ‘exquisite clarity’ and ‘radiantly lyrical’ voice, returns to Wigmore Hall to connect with the expressive worlds of Schubert and Britten.

Ian Page conductor

Wednesday 25 September 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Sarah Christ harp MATTHIAS GOERNE: ‘A CELEBRATION’ See page overleaf for full details Arcanto Quartet

Marco Borggreve

Robin Tritschler

Sussie Ahlburg

£12.50 concs £10

Robin Tritschler is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Ian Page

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Matthias Goerne ‘A Celebration’ Matthias Goerne has chosen three captivating programmes for his return to Wigmore Hall after a three-year absence. The German baritone, who studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, offers his mature thoughts on Schubert’s songs with harp accompaniment on 25 September, before turning two days later to the works of Hugo Wolf and Franz Liszt. Goerne’s revelatory performances of the Lieder repertoire rest on his matchless technique, vocal richness and uncanny ability to penetrate the inner mysteries of songs of love, life and death. His 2013/14 Wigmore Hall odyssey continues in January with a programme of music by Mahler and Shostakovich, revealing the ties of influence that connect the Russian composer’s late Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti to his lifelong study of and empathy for Mahler’s art.

Wednesday 25 September 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Sarah Christ harp Schubert Abendstern; Blondel zu Marien; Das Heimweh; Das Lied im Grünen; Der Kreuzzug; Der Winterabend; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Die Gebüsche; Die Sternennächte; Wandrers Nachtlied; Im Frühling For the first concert in Matthias Goerne’s series, he is joined by Sarah Christ to explore the unique sound-world of Schubert Lieder accompanied by harp.

Praised by Daniel Barenboim for the high standards of her orchestral and chamber music performances, Sarah is set to offer double-insight into these glorious songs through this exciting musical partnership. £18 £25 £30 £35 Song Recital Series / Matthias Goerne: ‘A Celebration’

Friday 27 September 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Andreas Haefliger piano See page opposite for full details

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Tuesday 7 January 2014 7.30 pm

Matthias Goerne baritone Leif Ove Andsnes piano Photo by Marco Borggreve

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See page 74 for full details

September Thursday 26 September 7.30 pm

Friday 27 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 September 6.00 pm

Angelika Kirchschlager

Matthias Goerne baritone Andreas Haefliger piano

Pre-Concert Talk

mezzo-soprano

Helmut Deutsch piano Haydn Ein kleines Haus; Lob der Faulheit; Das Leben ist ein Traum; Die zu späte Ankunft der Mutter; Eine sehr gewöhnliche Geschichte Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; Wonne der Wehmut; Mit einem gemalten Band; Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König; Die Trommel gerühret; Freudvoll und leidvoll Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Angelika Kirchschlager’s programme spans a formative period in the development of German song, exploring a selection of Haydn’s output for the genre and casting light on ‘Die Trommel gerühret’ and ‘Freudvoll und leidvoll’ from Beethoven’s incidental music to Goethe’s play Egmont. The second half of this recital presents Schumann’s dozen settings of verse by Eichendorff, the Liederkreis Op. 39 of 1840. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

Wolf Neue Liebe; Peregrina I & II Liszt Blume und Duft Wolf An die Geliebte; Liebesbotschaft; Nachtgruss; Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo: Wohl denk ich oft; Alles endet, was entstehet; Fühlt meine Seele Liszt Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Lasst mich ruhen; Ich möchte hingehn; Des Tages laute Stimmen schweigen; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh Wolf Harfenspieler I–III Liszt Der du von dem Himmel bist Wolf Keine gleicht von allen Schönen; Sonne der Schlummerlosen; Morgenstimmung Matthias Goerne and Andreas Haefliger, artists universally celebrated for the insightful qualities and expressive depths of their interpretations, train their attention in this recital on songs by two strikingly different men. Both Wolf and Liszt, for all their personal contrasts, probed the human psyche and harnessed the powers of music and poetry to set minds free.

Kristian Bezuidenhout introduces the evening concert. £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 28 September 7.30 pm

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mozart Piano Sonata in C K545; Piano Sonata in A minor K310; Suite (Sarabande completed by Robert Levin) K399; Piano Sonata in A K331 Kristian Bezuidenhout opens his all-Mozart programme with one of the composer’s most delightful keyboard works, conceived with consummate elegance and style ‘for beginners’.

The South African-born fortepianist includes Robert Levin’s completion of Mozart’s suite in early 18th-century fashion and the Piano Sonata in A K331, crowned by its famous ‘Turkish’ Rondo and shot through with uplifting melodies.

£18 £25 £30 £35 £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series / Matthias Goerne: ‘A Celebration’

Angelika Kirchschlager

Nikolaus Karlinsky

Andreas Haefliger

London Pianoforte Series

Marco Borggreve

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Marco Borggreve

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September Sunday 29 September 11.30 am

Monday 30 September 1.00 pm

Monday 30 September 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Cuarteto Casals

Wigmore Hall Debut

Jan Lisiecki piano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Chopin 12 Études Op. 10 Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan Lisiecki unleashed a flood of critical superlatives three years ago following the release of his live recording of Chopin’s piano concertos with Sinfonia Varsovia. The eighteen-year old, praised for his poetic pianism and highly developed sense of the singing line, marks his Wigmore Hall debut with this Coffee Concert recital. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes) Op. 13 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 Currents of Hungarian culture run deep in this BBC Lunchtime Concert. Cuarteto Casals performs György Kurtág’s aphoristic Microludes, written in 1978 in homage to the influential composer and cellist András Mihály. The quartet opens with Haydn’s delightful ‘Bird’ quartet, one of six works written in 1781 and dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia. £12.50 concs £10

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 29 September 7.30 pm

Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Brahms Sapphische Ode; Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen; Die Mainacht; Unbewegte laue Luft Wolf Gebet; In der Frühe; Der Tambour; Um Mitternacht; Fussreise Britten A Charm of Lullabies George Crumb 3 Early Songs Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques Poulenc 5 Poems of Max Jacob American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who makes her Wigmore Hall debut, took the Metropolitan Opera by storm in 2008 with her performance as Kitty Oppenheimer in John Adams’s Doctor Atomic.

She repeated the role at English National Opera, further underlining the allure of her stage presence, tonal richness and exceptional gift for communication.

Wigmore Hall Debut £15 £20 £25 £30

Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director

Song Recital Series

See page opposite for full details

Jan Lisiecki

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Mathias Bothor

Cuarteto Casals

Molina Visuals

Sasha Cooke

Dario Acosta

Vox Luminis Sunday 29 September 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Vox Luminis; Lionel Meunier artistic director THE BACH DYNASTY – 150 YEARS OF MOTETS Johannes Bach Sei nun wieder zufrieden meine Seele; Unser Leben ist ein Schatten Johann Michael Bach Herr wenn ich nur dich habe; Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebet; Halt, was du hast Johann Christoph Bach Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf; Fürchte dich nicht; Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu zeitlich stirbt Johann Ludwig Bach Das Blut Jesu Christi; Das ist meine Freude Johann Sebastian Bach Ich lasse dich nicht BWV159a; Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier received the 2012 Gramophone Record of the Year Award for their thrilling recording of Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien. The Belgian early music ensemble, which Meunier created in 2004, makes its Wigmore Hall debut with a captivating programme of works from the Bach dynasty. It opens with the two surviving motets by Johannes Bach, appointed as town musician and organist in Erfurt in the 1630s. Meunier and Vox Luminis will also reveal the deep family foundations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s musical training, clearly present in the sacred cantatas of his second cousin, Johann Ludwig, and the exquisite motets of Johann Michael Bach. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photo by Ola Renska

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Spotlight on Steven Osborne Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great works of the keyboard literature. In addition to taking a prominent part in Wigmore Hall’s ‘Tippett: A Retrospective’ series this Season, he gives two solo recitals built from music by the composers with whom he is most closely associated.

The Spotlight on Steven Osborne series is supported by Dunard Fund Tuesday 1 October 7.30 pm

Steven Osborne piano Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’; 11 Bagatelles Op. 119; Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Steven Osborne launches his Wigmore Hall Residency with a programme chosen to reflect Beethoven’s experimental daring and unique creative genius. He pairs two of the greatest piano sonatas ever written with the Bagatelles Op. 33, written in 1802, and the Bagatelles Op. 119, a group of pieces brought together by their composer in 1822 and first published in London the following year. £18 £25 £30 £35

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 17 January 2014 7.30 pm

Saturday 26 April 2014 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor Craig Ogden guitar Heath Quartet Steven Osborne piano

Heath Quartet Steven Osborne piano See page 93 for full details Saturday 7 June 2014 7.30 pm

See page 76 for full details Friday 14 February 2014 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Steven Osborne piano

Steven Osborne piano

See page 100 for full details

See page 81 for full details London Pianoforte Series /Spotlight on Steven Osborne

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

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October Wednesday 2 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 3 October 7.30 pm

Juliane Banse soprano Wolfram Rieger piano

IMS Prussia Cove

Mendelssohn Frühlingslied (Op. 47 No. 3); Suleika (Op. 34 No. 4); Der Mond; Suleika (Op. 57 No. 3); Schilflied; And’res Maienlied Liszt Mignons Lied (Kennst du das Land); Freudvoll und leidvoll; Der du von dem Himmel bist; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen; Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Die Loreley Schubert Ganymed; An die Nachtigall; Daphne am Bach; Frühlingsglaube; Naturgenuss; Freiwilliges Versinken; An den Mond; Der liebliche Stern; Der Wanderer an den Mond Britten On this Island Exquisite verses by Goethe, Geibel, Heine, Mayrhofer and Schulze in musical settings of the greatest depth and beauty occupy the core of Juliane Banse’s programme. The German soprano and her regular recital partner take an imaginative journey through Romantic Lieder by Mendelssohn and Liszt before turning to a compelling sequence of great Schubert songs and crowning their performance with Britten’s first published group of songs, five settings of poems from Auden’s Look, Stranger!

ISABELLE FAUST

James Clark violin Krysia Osostowicz violin Oscar Perks viola Rosalind Ventris viola Cellist to be announced

Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Herbert Schuch piano Schubert Overture in C minor D8a Brahms Horn Trio in E b Op. 40 Mozart Horn Quintet in E b K407 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 The IMS Autumn Tour showcases the work of the Open Chamber Music Seminar in Cornwall. This year’s programme, rich in musical content and variety, features rising star Alec Frank-Gemmill on horn together with the exciting young German pianist Herbert Schuch and renowned British violinist James Clark. £15 £20 £25 £30

Isabelle Faust Felix Broede Nelson Goerner Jean-Baptiste Millot Friday 4 October 7.00 pm NB starting time

Isabelle Faust violin Bach Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV1001 Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV1002 Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV1003 Partita No. 3 in E BWV1006 Sonata No. 3 in C BWV1005 Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004

Chamber Music Season

£18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin range far beyond formidable technical demands to draw their interpreters and audiences into rarely encountered realms of imagination and contemplation. Isabelle Faust performs the complete cycle of works at Wigmore Hall in a single evening, the latest stage in her long journey of discovery of Bach’s music for unaccompanied violin.

Following the release of her complete recording of these towering masterworks, Andrew Clements observed in the Guardian that there is ‘a wonderful security and confidence about her approach, a flexibility in her phrasing, and a remarkable control of dynamic and colour’. Faust’s understanding of each piece is suffused with enlightening reflections on the interpreter’s role as intermediary and re-creator of Bach’s music.

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, with an interval £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season Juliane Banse

Susi Knoll

Herbert Schuch

Juergen Olcz

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October Saturday 5 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Sunday 6 October 11.30 am

Sunday 6 October 7.30 pm

Watch This Space

Prazˇák Quartet

FAMILY CONCERT

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 71 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

Luciana Souza voice Patrick Zimmerli saxophone

For age 5 plus Join principal players of Aurora Orchestra for a musical journey to outer space! John Barber presents a programme of interplanetary music including extracts from Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony and Holst’s The Planets, as well as brand new music created by you, the audience, during the course of the concert.

Adults £7 Children £5

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Founded by a group of students at the Prague Conservatory in 1972, the Prazˇák Quartet has consistently flown the flag at home and abroad for the artistic virtues and timeless values of the Czech tradition of string quartet playing. For this Coffee Concert they turn to a pair of works blessed with an apparently inexhaustible supply of melodic invention and stimulating structural ingenuity.

Pianist to be announced

SAPPHO: DESIRE Patrick Zimmerli’s finely balanced mix of jazz and classical styles illuminates his Sappho: Desire, a bewitching song-cycle about love and longing.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Luciana Souza, acclaimed for her collaborations with, among others, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin and Osvaldo Golijov, presents the work’s world première in company with songs from her native Brazil.

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme & coffee/sherry/juice

£15 £20 £25 £30

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Joshua Redman Jazz Series

Saturday 5 October 7.30 pm

Miah Persson soprano Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano SONGLIVES: SCHUMANN See pages 24 – 25 for full details

Prazˇák Quartet

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Guy Vivien

Luciana Souza

Bob Wolfenson

Patrick Zimmerli

October Monday 7 October 1.00 pm

Steven Isserlis cello Stephen Hough piano Suk Ballade in D minor Op. 3 No. 1; Serenade in A Op. 3 No. 2 Stephen Hough Sonata for cello and piano left hand (London première) Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 Two acclaimed members of Wigmore Hall’s family of artists join forces this lunchtime for what promises to be a spell-binding recital. Their programme includes Stephen Hough’s new Sonata for cello and piano left hand and Grieg’s evergreen cello sonata.

Isserlis and Hough open with two little-known gems from the 1890s by Josef Suk, Dvorˇák’s star pupil and son-in-law.

Wednesday 9 October 7.30 pm

Friday 11 October 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello

Toby Spence tenor Julian Milford piano

Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 Philip Higham is rapidly emerging as one of the most prominent young cellists from the UK. He returns to the Wigmore stage to share his thoughts on three Bach cello suites, true masterworks of the repertoire. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

Tuesday 8 October 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Raquel Andueza soprano Vincenzo Capezzuto male soprano Anna Dego dancer

Daniil Trifonov piano

MEDITERRANEO

See page 26 for full details

See page 28 for full details

Stephen Hough

Grant Hiroshima

Through his experience of battling serious illness, a tough recovery process and personal introspection, Toby Spence has gained profound insights into the human condition. The tenor’s mature music-making conveys the extra depth of his engagement with the spiritual and expressive dimensions of song, directed in this recital into Britten’s sublime Holy Sonnets of John Donne. £18 £25 £30 £35

Thursday 10 October 7.30 pm

£12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35 Songs by Purcell, Beethoven and Brahms

Steven Isserlis

Satoshi Aoyagi

Toby Spence

Mitch Jenkins

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Songlives Robert Schumann

Claude Debussy

Henri Duparc

Johannes Brahms

Franz Schubert

Richard Strauss

Modest Musorgsky

Sergei Rachmaninov

Songlives brings a fascinating new strand to Wigmore Hall’s programming this Season. The series, overseen by Malcolm Martineau with singers chosen by him and John Gilhooly, offers audiences the chance to explore works drawn from specific years or across a single composer’s creative life. It takes wing when Miah Persson, Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau dig deep beneath the surface of Schumann’s song output, tracing its evolution from first steps to late glories.

Songlives unfolds throughout the 2013/14 Season with irresistible combinations of artists and repertoire. The seminal contributions of Debussy and Duparc to the French mélodie supply the musical lifeblood of two recitals, one by Lucy Crowe and Christopher Maltman in October, the other by Sarah Connolly and Henk Neven in April. Other Songlives highlights include Christoph Prégardien’s account of Schubert’s songs from 1825 and Christiane Karg and Michael Schade’s ‘first to last’ overview of the Lieder of Richard Strauss.

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Saturday 5 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 17 October 7.30 pm

Miah Persson soprano Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Christine Karg soprano Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

SONGLIVES: SCHUMANN

See page 32 for full details

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Hanno Müller-Brachmann

Tuesday 29 October 7.30 pm

Malcolm Martineau piano

Schumann Sehnsucht; Gesanges Erwachen; Der Fischer; Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht; Schöne Fremde; Frühlingsnacht; Dein Angesicht; Songs from Frauenliebe und -leben; Wanderlied; Sehnsucht nach der Waldgegend; Stille Tränen; Belsatzar; Die Kartenlegerin; Songs from LiederAlbum für die Jugend; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Liebeslied; Es stürmet am Abendhimmel; Nachtlied; Geisternähe; Aufträge; Die Sennin; Meine Rose; Requiem; Herzeleid; Abendlied; Warnung; Abschied von der Welt; Gebet

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Monday 13 January 2014 7.30 pm

bass-baritone

Lucy Crowe soprano Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano See page 35 for full details

See page 75 for full details

Sunday 26 January 2014 4.00 pm

Katherine Broderick soprano Andrei Bondarenko baritone Malcolm Martineau piano See page 78 for full details

Fifteen years since making her operatic debut, Swedish soprano Miah Persson is in demand today at the world’s leading opera houses. She returns to Wigmore Hall in company with Austrian baritone Florian Boesch. Five-star reviews greeted his electrifying interpretation of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Malcolm Martineau in March 2012.

Wednesday 23 April 2014 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Henk Neven baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

See page 93 for full details

Song Recital Series / Songlives

Malcolm Martineau

Russell Duncan

Wednesday 18 June 2014 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Malcolm Martineau piano See page 101 for full details

Painting by Caspar David Friedrich

Miah Persson

Monica Rittershaus

Florian Boesch

Wiener Konzerthaus/Lukas Beck

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Daniil Trifonov Tuesday 8 October 7.30 pm

Daniil Trifonov piano Stravinsky Serenade in A Ravel From Miroirs: Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes; Une barque sur l’océan; Alborada del gracioso Schoenberg Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) News of Daniil Trifonov’s triumph in the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition flashed around the musical world in June 2011. Nine months later, the 21-year-old Russian pianist brought his outstanding talent to London for a Wigmore Hall debut recital that prompted a standing ovation for his sensational bravura and myriad imaginative touches. Trifonov’s account of Chopin’s Op. 10 Études, observed Michael Church in the Independent, ‘blew us away. The cantabile [pieces] were a delight, and I have never heard the finger-twisters delivered with more nonchalant ease.’

Daniil returns to Wigmore Hall on 2 December to join the Paval Haas Quartet for Shostakovich’s piano quintet. £15 £20 £25 £30 London Pianoforte Series

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October Saturday 12 October 7.30 pm

Sunday 13 October 11.30 am

Sunday 13 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Andreas Brantelid cello Peter Friis Johansson piano

Quatuor Ebène Antoine Tamestit viola

Kodály Sonata for cello and piano Op. 4 Dohnányi Cello Sonata in Bb minor Op. 8 Grainger Scandinavian Suite

Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Bruno Mantovani String Quintet (UK première)* Mozart String Quintet in G minor K516

Andreas Brantelid, born in 1987, launched his solo career at the age of fourteen with a strikingly mature performance of Elgar’s cello concerto with the Royal Danish Orchestra. Since winning Eurovision Young Musicians in 2006, he has appeared at many of the world’s leading concert halls. His Coffee Concert offers a compelling mix of works written between 1899 and 1910, including the folk-tinged melodies of Kodály’s sonata and Grainger’s distinctive Scandinavian Suite.

*Co-commissioned by Auditorium du Louvre, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Académie de France à Rome and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Nash Ensemble Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Smetana The Bartered Bride Overture (arr. for wind quintet, strings and piano by David Matthews) Smetana From the Homeland for violin and piano Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings

by David Matthews) Schubert Octet in F D803 As a prelude to the Nash Ensemble’s American Series, this concert includes the Love Songs that Dvorˇák composed a few years before his American visit, adaptations of songs from his youthful cycle Cypresses. These are complemented with music from Dvorˇák’s Czech colleague Smetana; and the second half consists of a Nash favourite, Schubert’s evergreen Octet.

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£15 £20 £25 £30

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series

Christine Rice

Rob Moore

French composer Bruno Mantovani has forged a major international career since graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in the late 1990s. His String Quintet receives its UK première in this concert.

Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor K516, completed in May 1787, distils the restless energy of its composer’s professional setbacks to deliver a transcendent response to personal cares.

Andreas Brantelid

Sussie Ahlburg

Bruno Mantovani

C. Daguet/Editions Henry Lemoine

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L’Arpeggiata Baroque Residency Thursday 10 October 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Raquel Andueza soprano Vincenzo Capezzuto male soprano Anna Dego dancer MEDITERRANEO Cazzati Ciaccona Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso Traditional (Italy) Stu’ criatu (Tarantella del Gargano) Kircher Tarantella napolitana, Tono hypodorico Traditional (Italy) Pizzicarella mia (Pizzica); La Carpinese (Tarantella del Carpino) Traditional (Greek-Salentino) Are mou Rindineddha Ferrari Son ruinato, appasionato Vitale Tarantella Maria di Nardò Improvisation La Dia Spagnola Traditional (Italy) Tu bella ca’ lu tieni (Tarantella) Anon. (17th century) Tres Sirenas Traditional (Italy) Tarantella Italiana; Ninna, nanna sopra la Romanesca Le Bailly Yo soy la locura Kapsberger Toccata arpeggiata Pisador Los delfines Traditional (Greek-Salentino) Oriamu Pisulina Traditional (Italy) Pizzica di San Vito (Tarantella) Improvisation Sfessania Anon. (17th century) Homo fugit velut umbra (Tarantella) Falconieri La Suave Melodia Traditional (Italy) Silenziu d'amuri; Lu Passariellu (Tarantella Pugliese)

Boundary breaking comes naturally to Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata. Their fusions of jazz and folk elements with early music styles invariably set creative sparks flying, opening minds to new ways of hearing works by composers such as Monteverdi, Luigi Rossi, Barbara Strozzi and Cavalieri. Wigmore Hall’s audience rose to its feet at the end of L’Arpeggiata’s last visit, propelled not least by the terrific energy and verve of their collective artistry.

Their ‘Mediterraneo’ programme is driven by the energy of the Tarantella, the wild dance believed to cure the tarantula spider’s toxic bite, and shot through with unforgettable melodies from Italy, Spain and Greece set by the 16th- and 17th-century composers of this programme.

Friday 21 March 2014 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Nuria Rial soprano L’AMORE INNAMORATO See page 87 for full details

£15 £20 £25 £30 Thursday 10 July 2014 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Philippe Jaroussky countertenor MUSIC FOR A WHILE See page 105 for full details

£18 £25 £30 £35

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, with no interval

Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May and to the General Public on 31 May.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series / L’Arpeggiata Baroque Residency

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October Monday 14 October 1.00 pm

Monday 14 October 7.30 pm

Wednesday 16 October 6.00 pm

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

Benjamin Grosvenor piano

Artists in Conversation

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83

Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14 Schubert Impromptu in Gb D899 No. 3 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20 Medtner 2 Fairy Tales Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Gounod/Liszt Valse from Faust

Irvine Arditti in conversation with Tom Service before the evening concert marking his 60th birthday.

Two Gramophone Awards and other major recording prizes were among the emblems of Benjamin Grosvenor’s remarkable achievements in 2012.

The young British pianist’s career continues to unfold naturally, led by his desire to explore new repertoire and dig deep beneath the shimmering surface and technical wizardry required to perform works such as Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso and Liszt’s waltz on themes from Gounod’s Faust.

Wednesday 16 October 7.30 pm

Four Polish-born musicians chose the title of a Stravinsky ballet to name their new quartet in 2006. The Apollon Musagète Quartet made its mark two years later by winning the ARD International Music Competition and was chosen

by Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein as 2010 /11 ECHO Rising Stars. The quartet brings two of its signature works to Wigmore Hall for this BBC Lunchtime recital. £12.50 concs £10

Quatuor Apollon Musagète is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 15 October 7.30 pm

The English Concert piano Trevor Pinnock director, harpsichord Nadja Zwiener violin See pages overleaf for full details

£3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Arditti Quartet Brian Ferneyhough Intermedio alla ciaccona (for solo violin) Robert HP Platz Strings (Echo VII) (UK première) Hilda Paredes Cuerdas del destino (UK première) Francisco Guerrero Zayin I + II (for string trio) John Cage Eight Whiskus (for solo violin) Akira Nishimura Quartet No. 5 (UK première) To celebrate his 60th birthday, Irvine Arditti has assembled a captivating collection of works to demonstrate the Arditti Quartet’s brilliance, artistic vitality and uncanny understanding of contemporary chamber music. The programme offers three UK premières and two modern masterpieces for solo violin, opening the concert with Brian Ferneyhough’s hypnotic Intermedio alla ciaccona, first performed

by Irvine Arditti in 1986. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

Marco Borggreve

Benjamin Grosvenor

Sussie Ahlburg

Arditti Quartet

Philippe Gontier

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The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration The English Concert continues to set enduring benchmarks for the performance of early music, creating revelatory performances as well as recordings of works by, among others, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart. The orchestra commences its 40th anniversary season by reviving its partnership with founder Trevor Pinnock, who stepped down as Artistic Director more than a decade ago. The opening concert of the anniversary series is devoted to work that helped establish The English Concert’s commanding position on the world stage. Current Artistic Director Harry Bicket directs two concerts in this series, one entirely devoted to Mozart, the other themed around Handel’s Italian years. Guest conductor Laurence Cummings explores the relationship between JS Bach, Telemann and CPE Bach, whilst Bernard Labadie leads The English Concert in an Easter programme including Pergolesi’s transcendent Stabat Mater.

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Photo by Richard Haughton

Tuesday 15 October 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock director, harpsichord Nadja Zwiener violin

Tuesday 25 March 2014 7.30 pm

Handel Concerto Grosso in B b Op. 3 No. 2 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 4 No. 2 from La stravaganza RV279 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Trevor Pinnock founded The English Concert in 1973, and to mark its 40th Anniversary he returns to direct the ensemble at Wigmore Hall for the first time in over ten years. Two brilliant solo concertos and a pair of Handel’s Concerti Grossi amount to a programme sure to display this renowned period instrument orchestra at its virtuosic best. £18 £25 £30 £35

The English Concert Laurence Cummings

conductor

See page 88 for full details

Thursday 17 April 2014 7.30 pm

The English Concert Bernard Labadie conductor Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto

Wednesday 30 October 7.30 pm

See page 93 for full details

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord

Wednesday 21 May 2014 7.30 pm

See page 37 for full details

Wednesday 20 November 7.30 pm

The English Concert; Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Sally Matthews soprano Alberto Grazzi bassoon See page 51 for full details

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Lucy Crowe soprano See page 98 for full details Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

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October Thursday 17 October 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Thursday 17 October 7.30 pm

Friday 18 October 7.30 pm

Olaf Bär Masterclass

Christiane Karg soprano Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

Viktoria Mullova violin Accademia Bizantina Ottavio Dantone director, harpsichord

SONGLIVES: RICHARD STRAUSS Boyhood and Early Career in Munich & Meiningen 1864–1885 Weihnachtslied; Die Drossel; Ein Röslein zog ich mir im Garten; Waldesgang

Bach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041; Concerto in C minor for violin and harpsichord (transcription of BWV1060); Concerto in D for violin (transcription of BWV1053); Concerto in E for violin BWV1042

From the Earliest ‘Music of the Future’ Days to Marriage to Pauline de Ahna 1885–1898 Zueignung; Ständchen; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Ruhe, meine Seele; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Hat gesagt – bleibt's nicht dabei; Himmelsboten; Leises Lied; Befreit

Viktoria Mullova’s recent explorations of historically informed performance practices and use of gut strings have strengthened her already formidable arsenal of musical and technical gifts. She joins Ottavio Dantone and his characterful Accademia Bizantina for an all-Bach programme, complete with the composer’s beguiling Violin Concerto in E BWV1042.

Olaf Bär has long been regarded as one of the foremost Lieder interpreters of his generation.

In 1985 the German baritone began a long association with EMI which produced a discography encompassing most of the core Lieder repertoire including Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Kernerlieder Op. 35 and Liederkreis Opp. 24 and 39, a Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang, and Wolf’s Mörike Lieder, all with the late Geoffrey Parsons.

Although his reputation was originally established as a concert and Lieder singer, he is also renowned for his large and varied operatic repertoire, including roles by Wagner, Weber, Mozart, Richard Strauss and Korngold. He has performed at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opéra National de Paris and at the Festivals of Salzburg, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, Vienna and Glyndebourne.

He returns to Wigmore Hall to give a masterclass to postgraduate music students from the four London music colleges. £7 concs £4

The Opera Composer 1898–1916 Wiegenlied; Am Ufer; Freundliche Vision; Winterweihe; Waldseligkeit; Junggesellenschwur; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen World War I, Vienna, and The Weimar Era Einst kam der Bock als Bote; Drei Lieder der Ophelia; Schwung from Gesänge des Orients The Late Strauss September and Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs; Malven Christiane Karg scored a conspicuous critical hit with her title-role debut in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande last November for Frankfurt Opera. For the second recital in the Songlives series, the German soprano shares the Wigmore Hall stage with Michael Schade, established among the world’s leading Mozarteans ever since making his European debut in 1991 as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

£18 £25 £30 £35

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013 /14 Wigmore Series

Song Recital Series /Songlives

£18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 19 October 4.00 pm

Quatuor Diotima Brian Ferneyhough String Quartet No. 2 Jean Barraqué Quartet (UK première) Toshio Hosokawa New work (UK première)* Bartók String Quartet No. 3 *Co-commissioned by Alois Lageder /VIN-o-TON, Kunstfest Weimar, Wigmore Hall and Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Quatuor Diotima’s commitment to new work stems from its choice of name, inspired by the title of Luigi Nono’s Fragmente: Stille an Diotima. The Parisbased quartet’s Wigmore Hall programme, complete with UK premières of two important new works, embraces the vast textural and timbral soundscapes of Brian Ferneyhough’s second string quartet of 1980 and the harmonic and thematic intricacies of Bartók’s third string quartet.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, with no interval £12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Olaf Bär

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Matthias Creutziger

Christiane Karg

Gisela Schenker

October Saturday 19 October 7.00 pm NB starting time

Monday 21 October 1.00 pm

Wednesday 23 October 7.30 pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director Robin Blaze countertenor

Imogen Cooper piano

Doric String Quartet

Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in A D959; Piano Sonata in B b D960

Haydn String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

Imogen Cooper concludes her complete survey of Schubert’s piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall with the composer’s last three works in the genre. Schubert wrote these pieces in the final year of his short life, directing his individual mastery of formal structure to provide the support for music that charts just about every conceivable emotional state and probes deep into the human psyche.

Schumann and Haydn belong to the core of the Doric String Quartet’s extensive repertoire.

Haydn’s status as ‘the father of the string quartet’ was guaranteed following the publication of his Op. 20 collection in the 1770s. The quartet’s eloquence in Schumann’s String Quartet in A flows from each player’s empathy with the work’s expressive lines and collective feeling for the powerful emotions they convey.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes in duration, with two intervals

£12.50 concs £10

£18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 20 October 11.30 am

Telemann Suite in A minor TWV55:A3 Bach Cantata BWV170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust’ Handel Sonata a 5 in Bb HWV288 Pergolesi Salve Regina in F minor Telemann Concerto in E for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore TWV53:E1 Florilegium, in company with Robin Blaze, presents two sacred vocal works for solo countertenor from their critically acclaimed recording of Bach’s heart-melting cantata Vergnügte Ruh and Pergolesi’s Salve Regina. The programme begins and ends with works by Telemann, including his Recorder Suite in the French style and his strikingly scored Italianate concerto. £15 £20 £25 £30

Vanbrugh Quartet

Early Music and Baroque Series

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Janácˇ ek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ The Vanbrugh Quartet, praised by the Washington Post for its ‘innate feel for the natural ebb and flow of musical lines’, has lived with both works in this Coffee Concert for many years. Its recently reissued recording of Janácˇek’s first string quartet stands among the finest in the catalogue, noted for its intensity and drama. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Imogen Cooper

Vanbrugh Quartet

Miki Barlok

Doric String Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

Robin Blaze

Dorothea Heise

George Garnier

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October Thursday 24 October 7.30 pm

Friday 25 October 7.30 pm

Saturday 26 October 7.30 pm

Matthew Barley cello

Oleg Maisenberg piano

Dai Fujikura The Spirit of Beings (with electronics) (London première) Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 James MacMillan And he rose (London première) John Tavener Thrinos Britten Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 (with visuals by Yeast Culture) Jan Bang/Barley Noticing Things (remix of Dai Fujikura work, with improvised cello) (London première)

Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton artistic director

Dai Fujikura’s The Spirit of Beings and its remix, Noticing Things, frame a recital that turns its sustained focus on music of a meditative nature.

Matthew Barley builds his solo programme around masterworks by Bach and Britten and gives the London première of James MacMillan’s And he rose, written for the cellist and first performed by him last January.

Tchaikovsky’s ‘Twelve characteristic scenes’, published as The Seasons, were created between December 1875 and the following May. The pieces fashion impressions of each month of the year, just as Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition of 1874 drew their inspiration from the evocative imagery of Viktor Hartmann paintings. Oleg Maisenberg first studied these works as a child prodigy in the 1950s, constructing the foundations for his acclaimed mature interpretations. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series

Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 9 in C for strings Tippett Little Music for Strings Martin Suckling Musical Postcards (Nos. 1– 4) Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 (arr. J Morton) ‘This is one set of musicians you really need to see live to fully appreciate’ The Scotsman Following major tours to the United States and China, the UK’s only professional string orchestra returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme contrasting British and German approaches to string writing, including an arrangement of Brahms’s String Quintet in G made for the Scottish Ensemble’s full forces by its Artistic Director and Leader, Jonathan Morton. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, with no interval £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Oleg Maisenberg

Matthew Barley

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Nick White

Scottish Ensemble

Heinz Zwazl

Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

October Sunday 27 October 11.30 am

Monday 28 October 1.00 pm

Tuesday 29 October 7.30 pm

Musicians from the Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton leader Alasdair Beatson piano

Alexandre Tharaud piano

Lucy Crowe soprano Christopher Maltman baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Jonathan Morton and musicians from the Scottish Ensemble are joined by Alasdair Beatson, one of the most established chamber pianists of his generation. The concert features Schubert’s lyrical ‘Trout’ quintet, a work which takes its name from the fourth movement – a set of variations on Schubert’s Lied ‘Die Forelle’ or ‘The Trout’.

Bach Concerto in D minor BWV974 Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Chopin Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49 Few pianists can match Alexandre Tharaud’s intellectual curiosity and sense of style. He appeared on the big screen last year in performance and as an actor in Michael Haneke’s award-winning film Amour.

His BBC Lunchtime Recital includes works by the artist’s signature composers. Tharaud’s sensitivity of touch and cultured feeling for the singing line are ideally suited to the works in this programme. £12.50 concs £10

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 27 October 7.30 pm

Monday 28 October 7.30 pm

Singers from the Mariinsky Academy

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

Maria Bayankina soprano Ekaterina Sergeyeva mezzo-soprano Dmitri Voropaeyev tenor Grigory Chernetsov baritone

SONGLIVES: DEBUSSY Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; En sourdine (1st version); Coquetterie posthume; Apparition; Chevaux de bois; Le balcon; En sourdine from Fêtes galantes Book I; Chansons de Bilitis; Fêtes galantes Book II; Auprès de cette grotte sombre; Trois ballades de Villon; Crois mon conseil; Je tremble en voyant ton visage; Trois poèmes de Mallarmé; Noël des enfants qui n’ont pas de maison Last year Lucy Crowe made her debut at the Royal Opera House, performing Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at short notice and winning critical plaudits for the dramatic vision and bell-like vocal clarity of her interpretation. For the third recital in the Songlives series, the lyric soprano is united with Christopher Maltman and Malcolm Martineau, creating a partnership guaranteed to strike sparks of white-hot invention and thrilling artistry. £18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series/Songlives

See page overleaf for full details

Larissa Gergieva piano Songs by Glinka, Balakirev, Dargomyzhsky, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Varlamov, Rachmaninov, Borodin, Sviridov and Musorgsky Larissa Gergieva’s tireless work as Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers has helped nurture many of the foremost artists of our time, Sergei Murzaev, Anna Netrebko, Daniil Shtoda, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Olga Trifonova among them. She introduces some of the Mariinsky Academy’s finest young singers in this recital with a programme of Russian songs. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

Alexandre Tharaud

Marco Borggreve

Lucy Crowe

Marco Borggreve

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Christian Gerhaher baritone Monday 28 October 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Fauré Le papillon et la fleur; Les berceaux; A Clymène; Clair de lune; Spleen; Notre amour; Danseuse Schumann Dichterliebe Schumann Herzeleid; Die Fensterscheibe; Der Gärtner; Die Spinnerin; Im Wald; Abendlied Jörg Widmann Song cycle for baritone and piano (UK première)* *Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wigmore Hall, and Alte Oper Frankfurt, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Songs by Fauré, Schumann and Jörg Widmann supply abundantly rich material for Christian Gerhaher’s Wigmore Hall appearance. The German baritone’s total immersion in the musical and spiritual life of the works he performs prompted the Daily Telegraph’s Rupert Christiansen to observe that his ‘instrument and technique are faultless, yet Gerhaher is no showman: he seems to be the vessel of the music he sings, not its engine. Applauding him is beside the point – he is just delivering what the composer asks, in all humility.’ £18 £25 £30 £35 Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series

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October/November Wednesday 30 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 31 October 7.30 pm

Friday 1 November 6.00 pm

Trevor Pinnock harpsichord

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Itamar Golan piano

Pre-Concert Talk

JOURNEYS THROUGH MUSIC Cabezón Differencias sobre el canto del Caballero from Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela Byrd The Bells Tallis O ye tender babes Bull The King’s Hunt Frescobaldi Balletti I & II Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816 Handel Suite in D minor HWV436 Soler Sonata in F# Scarlatti Sonata in D Kk490; Sonata in D Kk491; Sonata in D Kk492 Since stepping down as Artistic Director of The English Concert a decade ago, Trevor Pinnock has balanced his time between guest conducting engagements, performances as harpsichord soloist and chamber musician, and education work. This recital programme ranges over two and a half centuries of keyboard music and embraces a thrilling variety of styles, from dazzling pieces

by Tallis, Byrd and Bull to the piquant sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti.

David Nice introduces the Belcea Quartet’s programme

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Weinberg Piano Trio Op. 24 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Three outstanding artists, universally admired for the perspicacity of their music-making and powerful emotional engagement with audiences, share here in the performance of works fuelled by youthful energy and inventive audacity. Shostakovich’s Piano Trio Op. 8, a remarkably assured product of his student years in Petrograd, was inspired by the composer’s affections for the daughter of an eminent Moscow academic. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

£3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 1 November 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 64 No. 6 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 25 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Three extraordinary works form the Belcea Quartet’s programme. The heart-breaking intensity of Shostakovich’s third string quartet stems from the tragedy of Stalin’s Great Terror and the horrors of the Second World War. It stands in company here with the last of Haydn’s Op. 64 quartets, first performed in London in 1791, and one of the Belcea’s signature works, Britten’s eloquent first string quartet.

£15 £20 £25 £30

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Chamber Music Season

Trevor Pinnock

Peer Lindgreen

Janine Jansen

Harald Hoffmann/Decca

Belcea Quartet

Ronald Knapp

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Julian Anderson Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s second ever Composer in Residence, began composing at the age of eleven, at first as a way of avoiding playing football. He was soon able to imagine complete works and write them down. ‘The major influences on my musical development,’ he notes, ‘include Olivier Messiaen, Gregorian chant, the Blues and the sound of bells.’

He has been described by The Times as ‘a composer to cherish’ and by the Evening Standard as ‘one of the finest composers of his generation’. Students come from all corners of the world to study with him at the Guildhall School of Music; his list of forthcoming performances and commissions, meanwhile, underlines the international profile and significance of his work.

Julian Anderson’s strikingly inventive music is the latest focus of a Wigmore Hall Composer Day, presented complete with a world première, a talk from the composer himself and performances by, among others, Cédric Tiberghien, the Aurora Orchestra, Adam Walker and Claire Booth.

Saturday 2 November 1.00 pm

Saturday 2 November 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Claire Booth soprano Paul Silverthorne viola Adam Walker flute Mark Simpson clarinet Cédric Tiberghien piano

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor András Keller violin

Julian Anderson Four Piano Studies; The Colour of Pomegranates; The Bearded Lady; Sea Drift; Prayer for solo viola Grisey Anubis-nout Oliver Knussen 4 Late Poems and an Epigram of Rainer Maria Rilke Op. 23 George Benjamin Three Miniatures for solo violin £12.50 concs £10 This concert will be approximately 1 hour

45 minutes in duration, with an interval Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Hans Abrahamsen Walden Julian Anderson Tiramisu; Another Prayer (world première) Salvatore Sciarrino ... da un divertimento Julian Anderson The Comedy of Change £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Forthcoming Concerts featuring works

by Julian Anderson Thursday 23 January 2014 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet See page 77 for full details Thursday 15 May 2014 7.30 pm

Saturday 2 November 6.00 pm

Arditti Quartet

Pre-Concert Talk

See page 97 for full details

With Julian Anderson £3 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May and to the General Public on 31 May. Photo by Maurice Foxall

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November Sunday 3 November 11.30 am

2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition Winners’ Concert

Arcadia Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Formed in 2006 at the Music Academy in the Romanian city of Cluj, the Arcadia Quartet captured hearts and minds as winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition. They return for a Coffee Concert built around two mature masterworks, dazzlingly inventive compositions sure to reveal the artistry of these captivating performers. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday 3 November 7.30 pm

Monday 4 November 1.00 pm

Xuefei Yang guitar

ATOS Trio

Scarlatti Sonata in E Kk380 Schubert Songs (arr. J K Mertz) Anon Chinese Piece (arr. X Yang) Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr. X Yang) Falla Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’; Spanish Dance No. 1 (arr. Xuefei Yang) Chen Yi New work (world première)* Walton 5 Bagatelles Henze Drei Tentos Ginastera Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47

Haydn Piano Trio in E b HXV:10 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Over the past decade, Xuefei Yang has established her place among the world’s finest instrumentalists.

Her interpretations combine technical excellence with compelling spontaneity and deep spiritual immersion in the soundworld of each composition.

This programme ranges from subtle arrangements of familiar piano pieces and songs to such outstanding original guitar works as Walton’s flamboyant Five Bagatelles and Ginastera’s sonata.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Described by Classical Source as ‘storytellers and musical conversationalists in the finest tradition of elevated musicianship and ensemble playing’, the ATOS Trio marks its tenth anniversary with a delightful choice of music. This BBC Lunchtime Concert includes Haydn’s Piano Trio in E flat of 1785, a paragon of thematic invention and development, and Dvorˇák’s expressively vivid and dramatic F minor piano trio. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Arcadia Quartet

Marion Gravrand

Xuefei Yang

Neil Muir

ATOS Trio

Steven Haberland

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Marc-André

Hamelin Artist in Residence Connoisseurs of fine pianism will need no urging to make five dates this Season with Marc-André Hamelin.

The pianist partners Anthony Marwood and Martin Fröst for a performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale Suite, and joins the Pacifica Quartet in 2014 featuring Dvorˇák’s Piano Quintet in A, and the Takács Quartet for the Shostakovich Piano Quintet.

Monday 4 November 7.30 pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Marc-André Hamelin Barcarolle (London première) Medtner Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 25 No. 2 ‘Night Wind’ Janácˇek On an overgrown path (excerpts) Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Marc-André Hamelin marks his return to Wigmore Hall with the London première of one of his own compositions, presenting it as companion piece to Medtner’s Sonata in E minor ‘Night Wind’, an epic attempt to touch the primeval order behind the chaos of existence.

Hamelin’s musical passions and personal interests are reflected in his decision to twin excerpts from Janác ˇek’s On an overgrown path with the phantasmagorical twists and turns of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit.

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 28 February 2014 7.30 pm

Monday 12 May 2014 7.30 pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Martin Fröst clarinet Anthony Marwood violin

Marc-André Hamelin piano See page 96 for full details

See page 84 for full details

Friday 20 June 2014 10.00 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Tuesday 1 April 2014 7.30 pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Pacifica Quartet Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke

Takács Quartet

Marc-André Hamelin piano See page 102 for programme details

See page 90 for full details London Pianoforte Series / Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

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November Tuesday 5 November 7.30 pm

Wednesday 6 November 11.00 am – 12 noon

Friday 8 November 7.30 pm

Samling Scholars

Arcadia Quartet

Kim Kashkashian viola Robert Levin piano

Kate Valentine soprano Helen Sherman mezzo-soprano Luis Gomes tenor Ben McAteer baritone John Reid piano

Sir Thomas Allen baritone Malcolm Martineau piano SAMLING SHOWCASE Programme to include: Copland 12 poems of Emily Dickinson (a selection) Mahler Das irdische Leben and Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Ginastera Cinco canciones populares argentinas (a selection) Vaughan Williams Silent Noon; The Water Mill; Linden Lea Samling connects the best young professional singers and pianists with some of the world’s greatest classical artists through its international masterclass programme, developing excellence in technique, artistry and performance.

This concert trains the spotlight on some of classical music’s rising stars and also features Samling Patrons Sir Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, who have been closely involved in Samling’s work since its creation.

GCSE AND A-LEVELS SCHOOLS’ CONCERT Dynamic winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia Quartet performs a diverse programme which includes works by Haydn (featured on the AQA GCSE and EdExcel A-Level syllabuses) and Debussy (AQA A-Level Music in Context). Presenter Rachel Leach takes you behind the music in this interactive concert, offering new insights into the structure and context of the pieces. Supported by a teachers’ resource pack linked to the GCSE and A-Level curriculum. £2.50

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Ginastera Lieder (arr. for viola and piano) López Buchardo Lieder (arr. for viola and piano) Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Formative studies with Karen Tuttle, Walter Trampler and Felix Galimir helped intensify Kim Kashkashian’s naturally expressive artistry. Since making her debut in the early 1970s, the Grammy Award-winning viola player has worked tirelessly to expand and deepen her instrument’s repertoire, commissioning many new scores. Her recital pairs two great sonatas with seductive arrangements of music by the Argentine composers Ginastera and López Buchardo. £15 £20 £25 £30

Wednesday 6 November 6.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

Pre-Concert Talk

Saturday 9 November 6.00 pm

See page overleaf for full details

Pre-Concert Talk See page 45 for full details

Wednesday 6 November 7.30 pm

EXAUDI James Weeks director

Saturday 9 November 7.30 pm

See page overleaf for full details

See pages 44– 45 for full details

Nash Ensemble American Series

‘Samling ... long may it continue. It’s just exactly what young singers need. A terrific thing’ Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, December 2011 £15 £20 £25 £30

DINE WITH THE ARTISTS There are a limited number of tickets for a special post-concert dinner with the artists. This includes a three-course dinner, wine and coffee in the Bechstein Room. Tickets are priced £125 each and are available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to enquiries@samling.org.uk.

Song Recital Series

Kim Kashkashian

Steve Riskind

Robert Levin

Herb Asherman

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EXAUDI Wednesday 6 November 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk EXAUDI director James Weeks introduces the evening programme £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 6 November 7.30 pm

EXAUDI; James Weeks director O TENEBROSO GIORNO – GESUALDO THEN AND NOW Gesualdo Madrigals: Itene, o miei sospiri; Se piange, ohime; Moro, lasso; Dolcissima mia vita; O dolorosa gioia; Tu piangi, o Filli mia; Deh, come un invan sospiro; O tenebroso giorno New works by Michael Finnissy*, Christopher Fox* and Stefano Gervasoni* * Co-commissioned by EXAUDI and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Pinpoint accuracy and emotional engagement were among the qualities that hooked critics and audience alike when EXAUDI celebrated its tenth anniversary in style at Wigmore Hall last October. The vocal ensemble’s mighty powers of persuasion extend back to the world of early music and inhabit the most complex and inventive of contemporary works, many of the latter written for the group and its director James Weeks. EXAUDI’s artistry, founded on an unshakeable commitment to excellence and musical adventure, owes its unforgettable force to the individual brilliance of its members. £15 £20 £25 £30 Early Music and Baroque Series / Contemporary Music Series

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November Sunday 10 November 11.30 am

Monday 11 November 1.00 pm

Wednesday 13 November 7.30 pm

Julian Bliss clarinet Robert Bottriell piano

Takács Quartet

Julia Fischer violin Milana Chernyavska piano

Françaix Tema con variazioni Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op. 105 No. 1 (arr. J Bliss) Chopin Nocturne in E b Op. 9 No. 2 (arr. J Bliss) Prokofiev Sonata in D Op. 94 (arr. J Bliss) Armed with an exceptional imagination, divine technical abilities and a true artist’s devotion to beauty and truth, Julian Bliss stands among the finest performers of his generation. The British clarinettist, born in 1989, returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme crowned by his arrangement of Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata Op. 94, originally written for flute in 1942 and refashioned for violin the following year.

Mozart String Quartet in E b K428 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Musical Vienna at the turn of the 18th century fizzed with creative energy. Beethoven arrived in the imperial capital within a year of Mozart’s death.

He was eventually persuaded by young Prince Lobkowitz, a passionate lover of music, to tackle the great challenge of writing string quartets. The composer produced six extraordinary new quartets, the String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 among them, between October 1798 and the autumn of 1800. The Takács Quartet here sets Beethoven’s complex score alongside the Mozart quartet composed in 18th-century Vienna.

See page 50 for full details Thursday 14 November 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet See page 48 for full details Friday 15 November 7.30 pm

Dame Felicity Lott soprano Graham Johnson piano See page 52 for full details

£12.50 concs £10

Saturday 16 November 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Brass Jaw Jazz Unravelled

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

FAMILY CONCERT For age 5 plus

Sunday 10 November 7.30 pm

Tuesday 12 November 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet Lawrence Power viola

Jerusalem Quartet

Brass Jaw brings its trademark energy, drive and humour to a family audience in this interactive concert, which unravels and explains how jazz is put together, using a unique mixture of jazz tradition and exciting new music.

See page 48 for full details

Adults £7 Children £5

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

In partnership with London Jazz Festival

See page 46 for full details

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Julian Bliss

Thomas Rabsch

Brass Jaw

Stuart Dreghorn

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble

AMERICAN SERIES ‘The country is full of melody’, Dvorˇák wrote of America in 1893. Since then, American popular music in its many guises has conquered the world, and it has also influenced many American concert composers in their search for a national or a personal style – while the USA has attracted many leading European composers to its shores. During the 2013/14 season, the Nash Ensemble explores these strands, with programmes featuring Europeans in New York, Americans in Paris and the best of Hollywood and Broadway, including highlights of the late musicals of Richard Rodgers, plus a guest appearance by Joshua Rifkin playing Scott Joplin rags.

Saturday 9 November 6.00 pm

Saturday 9 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 24 November 11.30 am

Pre-Concert Talk

Nash Ensemble Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin Ian Brown piano

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS IN THE USA

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS IN THE USA

Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Op. 45 for two pianos Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Stravinsky & Dvorˇák

Michael Berkeley in conversation with Edward Seckerson introducing the Nash Ensemble’s American Series. £3

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Nash Ensemble American Series

This intriguing programme begins with two works written by distinguished immigrants to the USA within a couple of years: Bartók’s vivid Contrasts of 1938, and Rachmaninov’s masterly Symphonic Dances of 1940 in their original two-piano version. Then come two works by earlier visitors: a prophetic student piece by Mahler, and the popular quartet Dvorˇák wrote during his stay. £15 £20 £25 £30

See page 53 for full details

Saturday 7 December 7.00 pm

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano AMERICANS IN PARIS Copland, Ravel & Gershwin

See page 59 for full details

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NB starting time

Saturday 7 December 10.00 pm

Saturday 15 February 2014 6.00 pm

Wednesday 26 March 2014 6.00 pm

Claire Martin jazz vocalist Joe Stilgoe singer, pianist

Nash Ensemble

Pre-Concert Talk

HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPOSERS

See page 89 for full details

I LOVE PARIS

Max Steiner, Franz Waxman & Bernard Herrmann

Cole Porter, Vernon Duke & more

See page 81 for full details

Wednesday 26 March 2014 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 February 2014 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble

See page 59 for full details

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 25 January 2014 7.00 pm

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano MUSIC FOR FILM, THEATRE & DANCE

Nash Ensemble Latonia Moore soprano Kim Criswell mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano AMERICAN SONG Copland, Ives, Barber, Gershwin, Bernstein & Weill

See page 77 for full details

Copland, Franz Waxman & Leonard Bernstein

Joshua Rifkin piano SCOTT JOPLIN RAGS See page 78 for full details

Barber, Carter & John Adams

See page 89 for full details

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble American Series

See page 81 for full details

Saturday 8 March 2014 7.30 pm

Nash Ensemble David White conductor Kim Criswell mezzo-soprano William Burden tenor with guest soloists

Saturday 25 January 2014 10.00 pm

NASH INVENTIONS AMERICAN MASTERWORKS

Photo: Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline

A CELEBRATION OF RICHARD RODGERS ON BROADWAY: ACT III Concert selections with narration from the musical Do I hear a Waltz?

See page 85 for full details

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Takács Quartet Associate Artists Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists grace the 2013/14 Season with five concerts chiefly comprising works written within the bounds of the old Habsburg Empire. Their repertoire choices touch on the Vienna of Mozart, Beethoven and Webern and look to the Bohemian and Moravian milieus of Dvorˇák, Janácˇek and Smetana. The Takács Quartet’s deep affinity for the music of Europe’s heartlands nurtures its supremely cultured and penetrating interpretations. It also connects them directly with the traditions of string quartet playing cultivated during the lifetimes of the composers in these programmes. ‘This is chamber music playing of overwhelming intensity, insight and intelligence, simply the best I have ever heard in concert,’ observed the Guardian after an evening in company with the Takács and Beethoven, echoing feelings so often shared by the quartet’s audience.

Sunday 10 November 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Takács Quartet; Lawrence Power viola

Sunday 23 February 2014 7.30 pm (repeated Tuesday 25 February 2014 7.30 pm)

Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Dvorˇ ák String Quintet in E b Op. 97

Takács Quartet; Graham Mitchell double bass

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists direct their deep knowledge of Czech music to a trio of essential classics, works fashioned by their composers with insights gathered from intense personal experience.

Janácˇek’s second string quartet, completed seven months before his death in 1928, reflects its 74-year-old creator’s genuine love for Kamila Stösslová, a married woman more than half his age. £15 £20 £25 £30

Monday 11 November 1.00 pm

See page 83 for full details Saturday 10 May 2014 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet See page 96 for full details Monday 12 May 2014 7.30 pm

Takács Quartet; Marc-André Hamelin piano See page 96 for full details

Takács Quartet See page 43 for full details Photo by Patrick Ryan

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Chamber Music Season / Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

November

WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR FAREWELL CONCERT

Sunday 17 November 11.30 am

Sunday 17 November 4.00 pm

Natalie Clein cello Tamara Stefanovich piano

Andrew Foster-Williams bass-baritone

Kodály Sonatina György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and Messages for solo cello Janácˇek Pohádka Bartók Elle est morte (Lento funèbre) from Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6 for solo piano Lutosławski Grave (Metamorphoses) Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 (a selection) Webern Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Natalie Clein, who captivated the nation almost twenty years ago as winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, directs unwavering concentration and commitment into every performance. Her ‘mesmerising’ artistry has been praised by The Times, while the Guardian has written of the ‘profound sensuality’ and ‘pervasive sense of transience’ present in her recent recording of works by Bloch and Bruch.

Wolfgang Holzmair

Ernest W. Gruber

Saturday 16 November 7.30 pm

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Simon Lepper piano A JOURNEY – SONGS OF PASSAGE IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Duparc La vague et la cloche; Le manoir de Rosemonde; L’invitation au voyage Stanford From 6 Songs of Faith: To the soul; Tears; Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Stephen McNeff 3 Chansons de Laforgue (world première) Keel Three Salt Water Ballads A banquet of delights for song connoisseurs opens with the Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte, written in 1933 for Feodor Chaliapin as part of the soundtrack to GW Pabst’s film version of Cervantes’s novel.

Andrew Foster-Williams and Simon Lepper preface three of Stanford’s rarely heard Op. 97 songs with his famous setting of Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame sans merci’. Their recital also includes the world première of Stephen McNeff’s cycle of songs to texts by French Symbolist poet Jules Laforgue. £12.50 concs £10

Wolfgang Holzmair baritone Imogen Cooper piano

Song Recital Series

Schubert Heliopolis II; Philoktet; Fragment aus dem Aeschylus; Der entsühnte Orest; Atys; Fahrt zum Hades; Freiwilliges Versinken; Der zürnenden Diana; Am Strome; Wie Ulfru fischt; Auf der Donau; Der Schiffer (D536); Einsamkeit; Nachtstück; Die Sternennächte; Auflösung Since making his Wigmore Hall debut and effectively launching his international career in 1989, Wolfgang Holzmair has become a cherished member of the Hall’s great family of artists. The Austrian baritone returns with one of his closest artistic collaborators, Imogen Cooper, to reflect on an artistic lifetime’s association with the songs of Franz Schubert. Always alive to expressive nuance and shades of emotion, their partnership offers an unmissable opportunity to experience the mature interpretative thoughts of two peerless musicians. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series Natalie Clein

Sussie Ahlburg

Andrew Foster-Williams

Paul Foster-Williams

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Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Audiences worldwide will be able to experience the insights and intensity of the Jerusalem Quartet’s complete Shostakovich cycle in 2013 and beyond. The ensemble arrives at Wigmore Hall in November to begin a Season-long exploration of the Russian composer’s fifteen string quartets, intimate works in which Shostakovich felt free to reveal aspects of his personality, autobiographical ruminations and musical ideas that would have fallen foul of Soviet dogma if paraded in compositions of a more ‘public’ nature.

The Jerusalem Quartet’s players are connected body and soul to the spirit of Shostakovich’s music. Their empathy for the composer’s troubled life and times and the cathartic nature of his quartets guide interpretations that reach deep beneath the surface of each piece.

The Jerusalem Quartet’s Shostakovich Cycle is sponsored by the Shostakovich Syndicate: Gwen and Stanley Burnton, Michael and Licia Crystal, David and Louise Kaye and Joe and Lucy Smouha

Tuesday 12 November 7.30 pm

Sunday 17 November 7.30 pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Jerusalem Quartet Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Jerusalem Quartet

Wednesday 30 April 2014 7.30 pm

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83; String Quartet No. 5 in B b Op 92; String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101

Thursday 1 May 2014 7.30 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Jerusalem Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49; Two pieces for string quartet: Elegy and Polka; Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Saturday 3 May 2014 7.30 pm

See page 94 & 95 for full details £15 £20 £25 £30

Thursday 14 November 7.30 pm Chamber Music Season /Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68; String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 £15 £20 £25 £30

Photo by Felix Broede

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November Sunday 17 November 7.30 pm

Monday 18 November 6.00 pm

Tuesday 19 November 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Pre-Concert Event

See page opposite for full details

RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

Werner Güra tenor Christoph Berner piano

Monday 18 November 1.00 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11 Many listeners discovered the refined qualities of the Pavel Haas Quartet following the release of its debut album, which went on to win the Chamber Music prize at the 2007 Gramophone Awards. These Czech musicians are always popular with audiences at Wigmore Hall, not least for their determination to take bold risks in performance and reveal fresh views of the string quartet repertoire. £12.50 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate closely with some of the world’s finest artists and teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers. £6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)

Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Beethoven An die Hoffnung; Lied aus der Ferne; Resignation; Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut; Der Kuss Duparc Phidylé; Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde; Extase Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Like Richard Tauber a century ago, Werner Güra developed his career as a company member of the Dresden Staastoper. The Munich-born tenor’s acclaimed Lieder interpretations arise from the strong foundations of his seasoned sensibility for song, an innate feeling for dramatic timing and the entrancing tonal variety of his voice.

Monday 18 November 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Schoenberg considered Brahms to be one of music’s great progressives, a visionary who inspired the direction of the Viennese composer’s own revolutionary compositions. The Razumovsky Ensemble’s programme explores points of comparison and contrasts between early masterworks by both men.

Brahms’s Sextet Op. 36 enshrines his infatuation for the voluptuous Agathe von Siebold, while Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht reflects on the emotional turmoil and reconciliation of two lovers.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Pavel Haas Quartet

Marco Borggreve

Werner Güra & Christoph Berner

Monika Rittershaus

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Julia Fischer Bach has supplied the artistic and spiritual foundations for Julia Fischer’s music-making since early childhood. The German violinist, born in 1983, has also been guided by her deep studies of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

Since winning the International Yehudi Menuhin Competition at the age of twelve, Fischer has attracted critical acclaim for the clear vision, emotional honesty and sheer intensity of her playing, earning her Gramophone’s Artist of the Year Award in 2007 and the enduring admiration of reviewers and audiences alike. She comes to Wigmore Hall this Season for a three-concert Artist Residency.

Wednesday 13 November 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin Milana Chernyavska piano Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F (1838) Sarasate Malagueña y Habanera Op. 21; Romanza andaluza y jota navarra Op. 22; Playera y zapateado Op. 23; Caprice basque Op. 24 Ravel Tzigane Virtuosity and lyricism share centre stage in Julia Fischer’s imaginatively conceived programme. She begins with Tartini’s fiendishly difficult Sonata in G minor, reportedly inspired by a dream in which the Devil invited the composer to become his servant.

There’s more demonic energy at play in works by Sarasate and Ravel’s Tzigane, counterbalanced by the soulful beauty of the slow movement of Mendelssohn’s F major violin sonata. £15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013/14 Wigmore Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 1 March 2014 7.30 pm

Saturday 24 May 2014 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Simon Trpcˇeski piano

Julia Fischer Quartet See page 98 for full details

See page 84 for full details

Chamber Music Season /Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’ Photo by Decca/Uwe Arens

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November Wednesday 20 November 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Sally Matthews soprano Alberto Grazzi bassoon

BENJAMIN BRITTEN CENTENARY DAY Friday 22 November 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Director Alisdair Hogarth and members of The Prince Consort in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Mozart Divertimento in D K136; Concert aria: Voi avete un cor fedele K217; Bella mia fiamma ...

Resta, o cara K528; Lungi da te, mio bene from Mitridate, re di Ponto; Bassoon Concerto in Bb K191; Concert aria: Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle K538 Sally Matthews ranks among the world’s leading Mozart sopranos, her status reinforced by acclaimed appearances as Donna Anna, the Countess and Pamina at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bavarian Staatsoper and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In this programme of Mozart’s operatic and concert arias she joins The English Concert and its Artistic Director Harry Bicket, internationally renowned for his opera interpretations.

£3 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 22 November 7.30 pm The Prince Consort

Richard Ecclestone

Anna Leese soprano Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Tim Mead countertenor Andrew Staples tenor Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Tanya Houghton harp Nicolas Fleury horn

Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Fabio Zanon

Osmar Motta

Friday 22 November 1.00 pm

Fabio Zanon guitar Philips Chromatica Pavana; Galliard Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E b BWV998 (for solo guitar) Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70 Granados Spanish Dance No. 10 Granados La maja de Goya from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo Assad Aquarelle

Sally Matthews

The Prince Consort

Britten The Canticles Interspersed with new commissions, including works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad* and Gwilym Simcock* * Co-commissioned by The Prince Consort and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Hailed by Classical Guitar as ‘one of the true stars of the 21st century’, the renowned Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon returns to Wigmore Hall to play Benjamin Britten’s seminal Nocturnal, written exactly fifty years ago. His programme includes favourite works by Bach and Granados, and Sergio Assad’s virtuosic depiction of watercolour technique, Aquarelle.

Wigmore Hall played host to the world première of Benjamin Britten’s Canticle III: Still falls the rain in 1955, one of thirteen of the composer’s works first performed at the Hall during his lifetime. On what would have been Britten’s hundredth birthday, The Prince Consort presents his five Canticles in company with three freshly written ‘responses’ to these profoundly spiritual works. It will be fascinating to hear how Britten’s themes of divine and individual love, God’s relationship to man and the meaning of Christ’s suffering are reflected in the new pieces in this programme and interpreted by The Prince Consort’s company of outstanding young singers.

£12.50 concs £10

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season /Benjamin Britten Centenary

Song Recital Series/ Benjamin Britten Centenary/Contemporary Music Series

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Dame Felicity Lott Farewell Concert Proceeds to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund All monies raised will be matched by Arts Council England Friday 15 November 7.30 pm

Dame Felicity Lott soprano Graham Johnson piano Schumann Widmung; Liebeslied; Meine Rose; Singet nicht in Trauertönen Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Auch kleine Dinge; Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden? Mein Liebster ist so klein Wolf So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land Strauss Das Rosenband; Ruhe, meine Seele; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen; Morgen Bridge Go not happy day; When you are old Britten Fish in the unruffled lakes; O Waly, Waly; Quand j'étais chez mon père Bizet Guitare Bernard Ça fait peur aux oiseaux Yvain Je chante la nuit Mireille Tant pis pour la rime Offenbach Dites-lui; Ah,que j'aime les militaires!

Connoisseurs of fine singing took note when a young soprano made her Wigmore Hall debut on a warm June evening in 1975.

Felicity Lott, accompanied by her friend Graham Johnson, immediately connected with the Hall’s audience. Over the past four decades, Dame Felicity’s glittering career has included many exceptional performances at the Hall, recognised in 2010 with the award of the prestigious Wigmore Hall Medal. This programme reflects the warmth, charm, humour and humanity of one of Britain’s best-loved artists. This will be Dame Felicity’s final solo recital but not necessarily her last appearance on the Wigmore Hall stage. £15 £25 £35 £45 (including a glass of champagne at the interval)

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November Saturday 23 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

Monday 25 November 1.00 pm

András Schiff piano

Tabea Zimmermann viola Igor Levit piano

BACH SERIES

WIGMORE STUDY GROUP

Hindemith Viola Sonata Op. 11 No. 4 Bach Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028 Sitt Album Leaves Op. 39

Please see page 54 for full details

Sunday 24 November 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin Ian Brown piano EUROPEAN COMPOSERS IN THE USA Stravinsky Suite from The Soldier’s Tale for violin, clarinet and piano Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100; String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 The Nash Ensemble continues its American Series with two works written by Dvorˇák during his threeyear stay in the USA: the tuneful violin sonatina and the fine quintet with two violas. These follow the trio Suite that Igor Stravinsky (who spent the last 30 years of his life in California), drew from the original Soldier’s Tale which was written as an ‘Entertainment to be read, played and danced’.

Two charismatic artists join forces for this BBC Lunchtime Concert, creating a partnership with the vitality required to travel deep into works rich in expressive variety and creative contrasts.

Expect to draw close to the edge of your seat as Tabea Zimmermann and Igor Levit probe Hindemith’s viola sonata, drafted while the composer was serving with the German Army in 1918. The programme is completed with Sitt’s Album Leaves. £12.50 concs £10

Sir Michael Tippett Tuesday 26 November 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Thursday 28 November 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Tuesday 3 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

THE SONGS AND CHAMBER MUSIC OF SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT Marking fifteen years since the death of Sir Michael Tippett, the first Wigmore Study Group of the season turns its attention to his songs and chamber works, tied to Mark Padmore and the Heath Quartet’s mixed recital on 3 December which programmes Tippett’s first and third string quartets either side of the two remarkable song cycles for tenor and piano. Each of the study group’s three afternoons will focus on the three main strands of Tippett's chamber music – song, sonata and quartet – with visiting Tippett scholars, eminent performers and postgraduate musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. A number of British composers will join the Study Group to evaluate Tippett's enduring legacy and appeal, and the series is hosted by composer Julian Philips, who spent time with Tippett in his final years, an experience that strongly influenced his own creative and educational work.

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert /Nash Ensemble American Series

Series ticket price £53 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 3 December

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Tippett: A Retrospective

Nash Ensemble

Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL

Tabea Zimmermann

Marco Borggreve

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András Schiff Bach Series The roots of András Schiff’s life-affirming artistry can be traced to childhood lessons in Budapest in the late 1950s and studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and with George Malcolm in London. His mature interpretations reflect the pianist’s questing mind, independent spirit and advanced sense of compassion. Among his many signal achievements, Schiff helped liberate Bach’s keyboard music from the increasingly narrow confines of period instrument performance in the 1970s and went on to develop revelatory readings of the composer’s landmark compositions.

He follows his sold-out cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2012/13 with five all-Bach recitals this Season, including both books of The Well-tempered Clavier and the Partitas. Schiff is set to crown his achievement when he celebrates his sixtieth birthday on 21 December by performing Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Bach’s Goldberg Variations in one extraordinary Wigmore Hall evening.

Saturday 23 November 7.00 pm

Saturday 14 December 7.00 pm

Saturday 21 December 7.00 pm

András Schiff piano

András Schiff piano

60th Birthday Recital

Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book I BWV846–869

ENGLISH SUITES

András Schiff piano

See page 63 for full details

£15 £25 £35 £40

Wednesday 18 December 7.00 pm Tuesday 26 November 7.00 pm

András Schiff piano

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András Schiff piano

PARTITAS

THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER BOOK II

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Friday 29 November 7.00 pm

Friday 20 December 2.00 pm

András Schiff piano

LECTURE-RECITAL

FRENCH SUITES

András Schiff piano

See page opposite for full details

See page 67 for full details

BACH’S GOLDBERG AND BEETHOVEN’S DIABELLI VARIATIONS

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London Pianoforte Series /András Schiff Bach Series

November Tuesday 26 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

Thursday 28 November 7.30 pm

Saturday 30 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

András Schiff piano

The Schubert Ensemble

Come and Sing: Tippett

Bach Partita No. 5 in G BWV829; Partita No. 3 in A minor BWV827; Partita No. 1 in B b BWV825; Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830

30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults with the chance to sing some of Tippett’s beautiful music for voices. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Everyone welcome, no need to read music.

£15 £25 £35 £40

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 45 minutes in duration, with an interval

London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff Bach Series

Wednesday 27 November 7.30 pm

Early Opera Company Robert Murray tenor (as Acis) Sophie Bevan soprano (as Galatea) Samuel Boden tenor (as Damon) Derek Welton baritone (as Polyphemus) Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord Handel Acis and Galatea Early Opera Company returns to Wigmore Hall with a performance of the work with which it made its debut in 2000: Handel's masterpiece Acis and Galatea. An outstanding cast joins the EOC orchestra in the ever popular tale of the shepherd Acis and the sea nymph Galatea, whose idyllic life is destroyed by the cyclops Polyphemus.

Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor Colin Matthews Piano Trio (London première) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26 The Schubert Ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday by bringing together three strands of its repertoire. Vaughan Williams’s rich and sonorous quintet remained unpublished until 1999 and has since been championed by the Schubert Ensemble. Colin Matthews wrote the Ensemble’s first commission in 1984 and, with neat symmetry, has written a thirtieth anniversary commission, which here receives its London première. The concert concludes with one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire, Brahms’s radiant A major Piano Quartet. £15 £20 £25 £30

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Tippett: A Retrospective

Saturday 30 November 7.30 pm

Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alisdair Hogarth piano Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Stephen Hough Herbstlieder Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad

Chamber Music Season

Friday 29 November 7.00 pm NB starting time

Bach French Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV812; French Suite No. 2 in C minor BWV813; French Suite No. 3 in B minor BWV814; French Suite No. 4 in E b BWV815; French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816; French Suite No. 6 in E BWV817; Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831

Jacques Imbrailo worked his magic at Wigmore Hall last Christmas in Handel’s Messiah. The South African artist, recently described by The Times as ‘the hottest young baritone on the block’, engages with the music of four sublime song-cycles.

Physical and spiritual journeys supply a common thread connecting Stephen Hough’s reflections on autumnal change and Butterworth’s on the passage of time to Liszt’s Tre sonetti di Petrarca and Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel.

£15 £25 £35 £40

£15 £20 £25 £30

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 45 minutes in duration, with an interval.

Song Recital Series

András Schiff piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

£18 concs £10

London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff Bach Series

Sophie Bevan

Sussie Ahlburg

The Schubert Ensemble

Rob Brimson

Jacques Imbrailo

Sim Canetty-Clarke

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December Sunday 1 December 11.30 am

Sunday 1 December 7.30 pm

Monday 2 December 1.00 pm

Spencer Myer piano

Carolin Widmann violin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

Elena Urioste violin Michael Brown piano

Jörg Widmann Duos (Book I) Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Bartók Sonata for solo violin Sz. 117 Ravel Duo sonata for violin and cello

Janácˇek Violin Sonata Beach Romance Op. 23 Strauss Violin Sonata in E b Op. 18

Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61 Spencer Myer, gold medallist at the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, made his Wigmore Hall debut last year and was praised at the time by the Independent as a ‘man to watch’.

The Cleveland native’s refined pianism draws from his wide experience as chamber musician and song accompanist, and from his consummate gift for creating abundant images in sound. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Two solo sonatas and two duos for violin and cello are set to astonish and delight in this recital.

Carolin Widmann and Jean-Guihen Queyras have chosen a programme that inhabits intimate spaces of creativity in Jörg Widmann’s Duos and encompasses the vast expressive scope of Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello of 1915 and Bartók’s solo violin sonata, written for and dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin in 1944.

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£15 £20 £25 £30

Over the past decade, Elena Urioste has progressed from studies at the Curtis Institute and Juilliard School of Music to establish a strikingly successful solo career. She was recently named as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and comes to Wigmore Hall as part of the scheme with a compelling programme, complete with an exquisite miniature by Amy Beach and Janácˇek’s turbulent violin sonata. £12.50 concs £10

Elena Urioste is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Spencer Myer

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Roger Mastroianni

Carolin Widmann

Marco Borggreve

Elena Urioste

Alessandra Tinozzi

December Monday 2 December 7.30 pm

Wednesday 4 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 5 December 7.30 pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Daniil Trifonov piano

Belcea Quartet

Michelle Breedt mezzo-soprano Nina Schumann piano

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Britten’s second string quartet received its world première at Wigmore Hall in November 1945 and swiftly established its place at the heart of the chamber music repertoire. The Pavel Haas Quartet unveils its thoughts on the work before joining forces with the thrilling young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for a performance of Shostakovich’s flamboyant piano quintet, conceived as a showpiece for the composer to play with the Beethoven Quartet in 1940. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Mozart String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’ Lutosławski String Quartet Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Centenary year celebrations for the work of Benjamin Britten and Witold Lutosławski continue with the Belcea Quartet’s thought-provoking programme choice. Lutosławski’s string quartet, written in 1964, expects its interpreters to follow the lead of chance and invent extensive passages in the white heat of performance. Britten’s late third string quartet has the seriousness and depth of valediction about it, intensified by its composer’s ill health and reckoning with mortality. £15 £20 £25 £30

SEASONS Schubert An die Natur SUMMER – Schubert Morgenlied; Lilla an die Morgenröte; Blumenlied; Der Schmetterling; Heidenröslein; Die Rose; Die Sommernacht AUTUMN – Schubert Herbstlied; Erntelied; Herbst; Der Herbstabend; An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht WINTER – Schubert Der stürmische Morgen; Winterlied; Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Winterabend SPRING – Schubert Viola Following studies in her native South Africa and London, Michelle Breedt learned the art and craft of singing at the Opera Studio in Cologne and as an ensemble member of the Braunschweig State Theatre. She has appeared regularly at the Bayreuth Festival since making her debut there in 2000 and is also an acclaimed interpreter of Lieder. Her Wigmore Hall recital offers an irresistible journey through the four seasons as mirrored in Schubert’s songs.

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season Tuesday 3 December 7.30 pm

Heath Quartet Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano TIPPETT: A RETROSPECTIVE

£18 £25 £30 £35

See page overleaf for full details

Song Recital Series

Heath Quartet

Sussie Ahlburg

Michelle Breedt

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TIPPETT A Retrospective Recent discoveries in neuroscience suggest that there was far greater substance to Michael Tippett’s long creative engagement with psychology and the multiple layers of human consciousness than many of his contemporary critics were ready to accept. Wigmore Hall returns to the composer’s output, in company with the Heath Quartet, Craig Ogden, Steven Osborne and Mark Padmore and James Baillieu, for what promises to be a revelatory four-concert Tippett Celebration this Season. Tippett’s five string quartets supply the central pillars for the series, which also explores the richly ornamented lyricism of vocal works such as The Heart’s Assurance and Boyhood’s End and the complex musical landscapes and allusions of his mature piano sonatas.

Tuesday 26 & Thursday 28 November and Tuesday 3 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Wigmore Study Group

See page 53 for full details

Saturday 30 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Tippett

See page 55 for full details

Tuesday 3 December 7.30 pm

Heath Quartet* Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano Tippett String Quartet No. 1; The Heart’s Assurance; Boyhood’s End; String Quartet No. 3 A visionary artist who probed deep into the human psyche, Michael Tippett sought to unite apparently conflicting styles and celebrate the vast energy of cultural diversity in his music.

Wigmore Hall’s Tippett Series marks the fifteenth anniversary of the composer’s death with a retrospective survey of works central to his creative development, opening with the Beethoven-inspired first string quartet and exploring the cantata Boyhood’s End, first performed at Morley College in 1943 by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten. £15 £20 £25 £30

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 17 January 2014 7.30 pm

Sunday 16 March 2014 11.30 am

Heath Quartet Mark Padmore tenor Steven Osborne piano Craig Ogden guitar

Heath Quartet See page 86 for full details

Saturday 26 April 2014 7.30 pm

See page 76 for full details

Heath Quartet Steven Osborne piano

Chamber Music Season / Tippett: A Retrospective

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Photo by Jane Bown

December Friday 6 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 7 December 10.00 pm

Sunday 8 December 11.30 am

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

Claire Martin jazz vocalist Joe Stilgoe singer, pianist

Raphael Wallfisch cello John York piano

I LOVE PARIS

Lekeu Cello Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonata) Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

director, harpsichord

See page overleaf for full details Saturday 7 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Marianne Thorsen violin Richard Hosford clarinet Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Claire Martin, a celebrated exponent of the American songbook, is joined by Joe Stilgoe in Cole Porter’s ‘I love Paris’, Vernon Duke’s ‘April in Paris’, and other songs celebrating the ‘City of Light’.

‘There’s something about Paris that can’t be expressed in guidebook prose. Every street corner feels like a change of key. The architecture harmonises. Everyone falls in love there, if only with the place …’ Claire Martin

Guillaume Lekeu, who died tragically young at the age of 24, is best known today for the violin sonata he created in 1892 for his fellow Belgian, Eugène Ysaÿe. Raphael Wallfisch and John York present a transcription for cello and piano of the composer’s eloquent work. They turn to Beethoven’s last cello sonata to close the recital. £12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

£12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble American Series

Sunday 8 December 7.30 pm

AMERICANS IN PARIS

Angela Hewitt piano

Copland Nocturne and Ukulele Serenade for violin and piano Ravel String Quartet in F Gershwin 3 Preludes for solo piano; Promenade from Shall we Dance for clarinet and piano Ravel Violin Sonata Gershwin An American in Paris for two pianos

Bach English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 24 in F Op. 78 Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811 Bach and Beethoven provide the mighty repertoire pillars for Angela Hewitt’s alluring recital. The pianist’s long immersion in the affective states, physical gestures and dance rhythms at the core of Bach’s music shape interpretations of the utmost beauty and life. She pairs two of the composer’s English Suites with Beethoven’s playful Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 3 and the concise, intensely focused Piano Sonata Op. 78.

The Nash Ensemble’s American Series explores the musical links between Paris and New York in the 1920s, with pieces written by Copland while he was studying in Paris, music written by Ravel which impressed Gershwin in a New York concert, and familiar pieces by Gershwin himself, ending with his musical souvenir of a visit to Paris in its original two-piano version.

£18 £25 £30 £35

£15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by Oliver Prenn

Chamber Music Season /Nash Ensemble American Series

Claire Martin

Simon Crawford-Phillips

Raphael Wallfisch

John Haxby

Benjamin Ealovega

London Pianoforte Series

Angela Hewitt

MAIWOLF

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Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset With memories fresh in the mind of their sparkling Monteverdi recital at Wigmore Hall last summer, there’s sure to be a clamour for tickets to hear Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset. The period instrument ensemble and its dynamic director have contributed massively to the rediscovery of music of the French Baroque and the recreation of its essential spirit for modern ears. Their burgeoning involvement in Wigmore Hall’s Early Music and Baroque Series extends to four concerts in 2013/14, including a tribute to Jean-Philippe Rameau – to mark the 250 th anniversary of his death in 1764 – and Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Leçons de ténèbres as part of the Hall’s Holy Week programme. Their series gets underway with François Couperin’s witty and constructive response to the musical style of Italy, then predominant in France, enshrined in his L’Apothéose de Corelli and L’Apothéose de Lully.

Wednesday 16 April 2014 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Amel Brahim-Djelloul soprano Judith van Wanroij soprano François Joubert-Caillet viola da gamba CHARPENTIER AND COUPERIN LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES See page 92 for full details £18 £25 £30 £35

Friday 6 December 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 March 2014 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

director, harpsichord

director, harpsichord

LES APOTHÉOSES Couperin Sonata from Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘Les Nations’ Lully Trios pour le coucher du roi (excerpts) Couperin L’Apothéose de Corelli (or Le Parnasse) Corelli Trio Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 12 ‘Ciaccona’ Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully £18 £25 £30 £35

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Valérie Gabail soprano Gilone Gaubert-Jacques violin Lucille Boulanger viola da gamba RAMEAU ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Monday 28 April 2014 7.30 pm

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano ARIAS FOR FARINELLI See page 94 for full details £18 £25 £30 £35

See page 89 for full details £18 £25 £30 £35

Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May and to the General Public on 31 May. Early Music and Baroque Series

December Monday 9 December 1.00 pm

Monday 9 December 7.30 pm

Tuesday 10 December 7.30 pm

Mark Simpson clarinet Vikingur Olafsson piano

Pieter Wispelwey cello

Roman Rabinovich piano

Britten Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72 Britten Cello Suite No. 2 Op. 80 Britten Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87

Couperin 4 Pièces de clavecin Haydn Piano Sonata in A b HXVI:46 Ravel Prélude from Le tombeau de Couperin; Minuet on the name of Haydn; Two Movements from Daphnis et Chloé (arr. Rabinovich) Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28

Howells Clarinet Sonata Gavin Higgins Three Broken Love Songs Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Mark Simpson, born in Liverpool in 1988, was only seventeen when he became the first person to win both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the BBC Proms / Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions. He was subsequently commissioned to write the opening work for the 2012 Last Night of the Proms and joined BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme as a clarinettist.

Pieter Wispelwey’s intense devotion to Britten’s cello music can be heard not least in his acclaimed recording of the three cello suites, an outstanding document in their performance history. The Dutch artist shares his latest thoughts on the trilogy, exploring their technical wizardry, compositional ingenuity and enthralling melodic invention. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

£12.50 concs £10

Mark Simpson is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Israeli pianist and visual artist Roman Rabinovich rose to worldwide prominence with his top prize-winning performance at the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.

The young artist’s Wigmore Hall recital traces the stylistic roots of Ravel’s keyboard hommages to Couperin and Haydn and concludes with one of the great monuments of the piano repertoire, the two dozen aphoristic miniatures that form Chopin’s Op. 28 Preludes. £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mark Simpson

Elisabeth Blanchet

Pieter Wispelwey

Merlijn Doomernik

Roman Rabinovich

Lisa Mazzucco

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December Wednesday 11 December 12.15 pm

Wednesday 11 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 12 December 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

The Endellion String Quartet 35th Anniversary Series

An introduction to the lunchtime concert

The Endellion String Quartet

Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute Sophie Daneman soprano Anna Starushkevych mezzo-soprano Paul Agnew tenor

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 11 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Huw Watkins piano Mozart Adagio from Violin Sonata in E b K481 Lutosławski Bukoliki Sally Beamish New work (world première)* Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in E b Op. 44 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ An almighty autumnal thunderstorm soaked and almost destroyed Beethoven’s manuscript of the first two movements of his Second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet.

The forces of nature, from violent tempests to the harmony of the spheres, influenced the musical substance of the completed composition, which closes with a joyful sonata-rondo movement. Mendelssohn’s energetic and virtuosic Op. 44 No. 3 is full of warmth and imagination, while Haydn’s soaring ‘Lark’ – recently recorded by the Endellions – deservedly ranks among his best-loved masterpieces. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Britten Sinfonia’s acclaimed At Lunch series begins its 2013/14 season with Fauré’s superbly crafted second piano quartet, among the pinnacles of his chamber music output. Renowned for its adventurous, deeply thoughtful interpretations, Britten Sinfonia’s programme includes the ingenious Adagio from Mozart’s Violin Sonata K481 and, to mark his centenary year, Lutosławski’s Bukoliki for viola and cello. Three of the performers will also give the world première of a new string trio by the Scottish composer Sally Beamish.

Charpentier In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum H414 Seasonal Noëls Charpentier Actéon Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre scored a critical hit in 2011 with its performance of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, subsequently released on the Wigmore Hall Live label. The ensemble is joined by three outstanding interpreters of French Baroque vocal music for an Advent programme of sacred and secular pieces by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, composer to the French dauphin and Molière’s Comédie-Française. The concert includes Charpentier’s pastorale Actéon and one of his grandest dramatic Christmastide motets. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

£12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Britten Sinfonia

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The Endellion String Quartet

Eric Richmond

Elizabeth Kenny

Benjamin Ealovega

December Friday 13 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 14 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

Sunday 15 December 6.00 pm

Michael Volle baritone Helmut Deutsch piano

András Schiff piano

Pre-Concert Talk

Bach English Suite No. 1 in A BWV806; English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807; English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808; English Suite No. 4 in F BWV809; English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV810; English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811

See page overleaf for full details

RÜCKERT LIEDER Schubert Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Lachen und Weinen; Dass sie hier gewesen; Sei mir gegrüsst Mahler Five Rückert Lieder Robert Schumann Widmung from Myrthen; Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint Clara Schumann Liebst du um Schönheit Robert Schumann Mein schöner Stern!; Aus den östlichen Rosen from Myrthen Clara Schumann Die gute Nacht Robert Schumann Zum Schluss from Myrthen Strauss Vom künftigen Alter; Und dann nicht mehr; Im Sonnenschein Michael Volle, who studied the art of interpretation with Josef Metternich and Rudolf Piernay, was a member of the Zurich Opera ensemble from 1999 to 2007 and has returned there since to perform roles such as Wagner’s Hans Sachs and Richard Strauss’s Barak. His recital programme explores everything from the emotional contrasts of Schubert’s ‘Lachen und Weinen’ to Strauss’s heart-melting ‘Im Sonnenschein’. £15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

Sunday 15 December 7.30 pm

£15 £25 £35 £40

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 40 minutes in duration, with an interval.

Elizabeth Watts soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Simon Lepper piano

London Pianoforte Series /András Schiff Bach Series

See page overleaf for full details

Sunday 15 December 11.30 am

Monday 16 December 1.00 pm

Mandelring Quartet

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1

Schubert Piano Sonata in B b D960 Debussy Préludes Book I (selection)

Hailed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a worthy successor to the Alban Berg Quartet, the Mandelring Quartet closed 2012 with a complete Shostakovich cycle at Berlin’s Radial-System V. The ensemble performs two works guaranteed to benefit from its exquisite tonal blend and characteristic combination of intellectual rigour and expressive spontaneity.

Subtle tonal shadings, meaningful phrasing and intimacy of expression belong to Francesco Piemontesi’s portfolio of accomplishments. The young Swiss-Italian pianist’s deep affinity for the music of Schubert and Debussy can be heard in the former composer’s spellbinding final piano sonata and a selection of the latter’s first book of Préludes.

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

£12.50 concs £10

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Michael Volle

Wilfried Hösl

Mandelring Quartet

Uwe Arens

Francesco Piemontesi

Marco Borggreve

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Joseph Marx Song Series Born in the Austrian city of Graz in 1882, Joseph Marx devoted much of his long life to the creation of song. Pianist Simon Lepper oversees a revealing three-concert series devoted to the composer’s Lieder, opening with a carefully chosen selection of settings by Marx and Hugo Wolf of texts from Heyse’s Italienisches Liederbuch. The ‘Joseph Marx Song Series’ unfolds in 2014 with another programme constructed to provide points of comparison and contrast, this time between Marx, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Berg and Korngold, performed

by Angelika Kirchschlager. The series concludes next June by exploring settings of Eichendorff and Dehmel by Marx and, among others, Pfitzner, Zemlinsky, Reger and Webern.

Sunday 15 December 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert Talk Gavin Plumley introduces the Joseph Marx Song Series £3 Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Joseph Marx Song Series

Sunday 15 December 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Simon Lepper piano JOSEPH MARX AND HUGO WOLF: AN ITALIAN SONGBOOK Marx Die Begegnung; Nimm dir ein schönes Weib; Wofür; Am Fenster; Abends; Ständchen Wolf Mein Liebster ist so klein; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Ich esse nun mein Brot nicht trocken mehr; Gesegnet sei das Grün Marx Die Lilie Wolf O wär dein Haus durchsichtig Marx Wie reizend bist du Wolf Wie lange schon; Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen; Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Wenn du mich mit den Augen streifst und lachst Marx Der Dichter Wolf Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen; Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden?; Heb’ auf dein blondes Haupt und schlafe nicht; Mein Liebster singt am Haus Marx Venetianisches Wiegenlied Wolf Schweig einmal still; Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz Marx Liebe; Es zürnt das Meer Wolf Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen; Nein, junger Herr; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, und geht; Wer rief dich denn?; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten; Wie viele Zeit verlor ich; Lass sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Verschling der Abgrund; Selig ihr Blinden, die ihr nicht zu schauen Marx Die Verlassene Simon Lepper’s Marx Song Series begins with a compelling programme performed by three of the most imaginative singers of their generation. Joseph Marx was raised in the cultural borderlands connecting Central and Eastern Europe to Italy.

The Austrian composer’s settings of Paul Heyse’s translations of Italian folksongs offer fascinating points of comparison and contrast to Hugo Wolf’s more familiar Italienisches Liederbuch songs.

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 13 February 2014 7.30 pm

Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano

Simon Lepper piano See page 81 for full details

Friday 27 June 2014 7.00 pm Soprano to be announced

£18 £25 £30 £35

Christopher Maltman baritone Simon Lepper piano

Song Recital Series /Joseph Marx Song Series

See page 103 for full details

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December Wednesday 18 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

Monday 16 December 7.30 pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Inon Barnatan* piano Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Schubert Fantasy D934 (arr. Weilerstein/Barnatan) Shostakovich/Auerbach 10 Preludes Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

MITSUKO UCHIDA & MUSICIANS from the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

András Schiff piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II BWV870– 893 £15 £25 £35 £40

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 50 minutes in duration, with an interval.

Critical superlatives and favourable comparisons with great artists from the past have been attached to Alisa Weilerstein’s artistry ever since she made her debut at the age of 13 with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1996. Her passionate commitment in performance is matched by the personality and intensity of Inon Barnatan’s pianism. Their established duo partnership comes to Wigmore Hall for what promises to be an evening of unforgettable music-making.

London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff Bach Series

Thursday 19 December 7.30 pm

Les Arts Florissants William Christie director AIRS SÉRIEUX ET A BOIRE

£15 £20 £25 £30

See page overleaf for full details

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season Mitsuko Uchida

Justin Pumfrey

Tuesday 17 December 7.30 pm

Mitsuko Uchida piano Musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Daishin Kashimoto violin Ludwig Quandt cello Wenzel Fuchs clarinet Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schubert Notturno in E b D897 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)

Alisa Weilerstein

Jamie Jung

Messiaen completed his Quartet for the End of Time in Stalag VIIIA in Silesia and joined three fellow prisoners-of-war to give its première there on 15 January 1941. The work’s transcendent beauty held its first audience in rapt silence and, like Berg’s Adagio and Schubert’s Notturno, has lost none of its power to carry minds far beyond concerns of the material world. £15 £25 £35 £40 Booking limited to two tickets only per person Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2013/14 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season

Inon Barnatan

Marco Borggreve

András Schiff

Birgitta Kowsky

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Les Arts Florissants Thursday 19 December 7.30 pm

Les Arts Florissants William Christie director Emmanuelle de Negri soprano Anna Reinhold mezzo-soprano Cyril Auvity high tenor Marc Mauillon baritone Lisandro Abadie bass AIRS SÉRIEUX ET A BOIRE A selection of one to five-part airs de cour by Lambert, Charpentier, Moulinié, Le Camus, Couperin and D’Ambruis.

In the late 1970s William Christie and Les Arts Florissants launched a revolution in the performance of early music and have been at its vanguard ever since. The ensemble and its director have liberated countless wonderful works of the French Baroque from library shelves, bringing long lost scores to vital, vibrant, irresistible life. Their programme explores a rich treasure trove of courtly chamber music.

Les Arts Florissants receives financial support from the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the Ville de Caen and the Région Basse-Normandie.

They are artists in residence at the Théâtre de Caen. IMERYS and ALSTOM are Principal Sponsors of Les Arts Florissants. £20 £30 £40 £50 Early Music and Baroque Series

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December Friday 20 December 2.00 pm

András Schiff Lecture-Recital BEETHOVEN’S DIABELLI VARIATIONS SEEN AND HEARD THROUGH THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT

Saturday 21 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

PINCHAS ZUKERMAN

60th Birthday Recital

András Schiff piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, with an interval.

Deep immersion and illumination belong as much to András Schiff’s work as public educator as it does to his profound interpretations of monuments of the keyboard literature. The pianist precedes his 60th birthday concert at Wigmore Hall with a lecture-recital on the Diabelli Variations, providing insights drawn from close study of Beethoven’s autograph manuscript and sharing thoughts on what the composer’s expressive and spontaneous handwriting tells us about his musical intentions in the work.

£15 £25 £35 £40 Booking limited to two tickets only per person

London Pianoforte Series/András Schiff Bach Series

Sunday 22 December 11.30 am

Gould Piano Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15

£12.50 concs £10

This lecture-recital will be approximately 2 – 2.5 hours in duration.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/András Schiff Bach Series

Pinchas Zukerman

Paul Labelle

Beethoven waited until Vienna’s music-loving public knew his name and abilities before publishing several of his ‘more important works’. In May 1795 advertisements for the composer’s Op. 1 piano trios attracted over 120 subscribers; their early audiences, meanwhile, ‘bestowed upon them undivided applause’. The Gould Piano Trio pairs the ebullient first work of Beethoven’s set with Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15, created in despair following the early death of his first-born child.

Friday 20 December 7.30 pm

Pinchas Zukerman violin Angela Cheng piano

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Dvorˇ ák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Elgar Études caractéristiques Op. 24 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12 No. 1 Pinchas Zukerman’s natural artistry matured with early guidance from, among others, Ivan Galamian, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals, a teaching pedigree that connects his work to an age of expressive subtlety, individuality and transcendent communication in violin playing.

He performs a seductive recital programme enriched by César Franck’s peerless Sonata in A and Dvorˇák’s Four Romantic Pieces, first heard in Prague in 1887.

Plaster bust of Beethoven by J. Schaller. Presented to the Royal Philharmonic Society in 1870, ‘in recognition of the Society’s “spontaneous acts of esteem and generosity” towards the composer in times of need.’

£18 £25 £30 £35

Chamber Music Season

Gould Piano Trio

Chris Stock

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December Sunday 22 December 7.30 pm

Monday 23 December 7.30 pm

Saturday 28 December 7.30 pm

Emmanuel Pahud flute Christian Rivet guitar

The King’s Consort Robert King conductor Julie Cooper soprano Rebecca Outram soprano Robin Blaze countertenor David Gould countertenor James Oxley tenor David de Winter tenor David Wilson-Johnson baritone Philip Tebb bass

Vadim Gluzman violin Angela Yoffe piano

Bach Sonata in C for flute and guitar BWV1033 Molino Duo for flute and guitar Op. 16 No. 2; Duo for flute and guitar Op. 16 No. 3 Takemitsu Voice for solo flute Shankar L’Aube Enchantée sur Le Raga ‘todi’ Falla Homenaje: pièce de guitare écrite pour ‘Le tombeau de Claude Debussy’ Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 68 (arr. flute and guitar) Emmanuel Pahud and Christian Rivet delight in musical juxtapositions, contrasts and revelations.

They have constructed a programme teeming with imagination and fantasy for this recital, comprising rarely heard gems by the 19th-century Italian guitarist, violinist and composer Francesco Molino, Ravi Shankar’s hypnotic L’Aube Enchantée and masterworks by Falla, Takemitsu and Piazzolla. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

WACHET AUF! Bach Concerto to Cantata BWV35; Cantata BWV91 ‘Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ’; Sinfonia to Cantata BWV35 Kuhnau Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; O heilige Zeit Bach Sinfonia after Cantata BWV31; Cantata BWV140 ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’

Mozart Violin Sonata in F K377 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Stravinsky Suite italienne arr. from Pulcinella for violin & piano Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Figaro from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville Vadim Gluzman, who studied with Zakhar Bron and Dorothy DeLay, returns to Wigmore Hall with his wife and regular duo partner Angela Yoffe following their critically acclaimed recital debut in March 2011. Gluzman’s warm tone, developed out of his miraculous ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivarius, takes its inspiration from the Golden Age of violin playing and the timeless examples of Mischa Elman, Nathan Milstein and David Oistrakh. £15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season

Glorious works by J S Bach and Johann Kuhnau, Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, mark the transition from Advent to the celebration of Christmas, culminating in Bach’s famous cantata ‘Sleepers, wake!’. The King’s Consort’s magnificent line-up of soloists is accompanied by a large and colourful instrumental ensemble.

‘Bach performance does not come better than this’ The Times £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series Emmanuel Pahud

Christian Rivet

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Vadim Gluzman

Peter Adamik/EMI Classics

Alvaro Yañez

The King’s Consort

Marco Borggreve

Keith Saunders

December Sunday 29 December 11.30 am

Tuesday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

SONIA PRINA

Quartetto di Cremona Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

The Strad has written of the quartet’s ‘mature and lyrical sound’ and praised the ensemble’s ‘immaculate voicing’, characteristics ideally suited to the deep interpretation of Haydn’s mature String Quartet in G and the flowing thematic interplay and drama of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet.

Classical Opera Ian Page conductor Sarah Fox soprano Anna Devin soprano Martene Grimson soprano Anthony Gregory tenor Mark Stone baritone Matthew Rose bass

£12.50 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Programme to include: Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16; Diggi, daggi, schurry, murry from Bastien und Bastienne; Duet: Se viver non degg’io from Mitridate, re di Ponto K87; Nach der welschen Art und Weise from Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe K196; Laudamus te from Mass in C minor K427; Ora pro nobis from Regina coeli K108; Liebes Mandel, wo is’s Bandel K441; Io ti lascio, K621a; Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 Mozart/Page The 5-minute Figaro

Sunday 29 December 7.30 pm

Bennewitz Quartet Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Anton Webern’s admiration for Schubert was infused into the lyrical flow of his aphoristic scores. The Bennewitz Quartet explores essential masterworks by both Viennese composers, juxtaposing the radiant beauty of Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet with the strikingly original miniatures of Webern’s Op. 9. The concert’s second half presents the String Quartet in E flat, created by Dvorˇák to convey the spirit of Slavonic folk music.

Sonia Prina

Ribaltaluce Studio

Monday 30 December 7.30 pm

Sonia Prina contralto Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca director, lute

£15 £20 £25 £30

SENESINO IN HANDEL’S OPERA Chamber Music Season

Ian Page and Classical Opera are joined by an outstanding team of soloists for this festive concert of Mozart rarities. The programme blends exquisite gems picked from the prodigiously gifted composer’s childhood years and several of his finest sacred works with fun and surprises, crowned by an audacious attempt to perform The Marriage of Figaro in five minutes. £18 £25 £30 £35

Early Music and Baroque Series

Opera companies risked ruin to hire Senesino, securing his services with fat salaries and rich material rewards. Handel lured the legendary alto castrato to London in 1720 for a vast fee and tailored more than a dozen lead roles to suit his dazzling talents.

Sonia Prina has made a special study of the singer’s life and art, applying her remarkable contralto voice to the revival of the virtuosity and grace that beguiled Senesino’s audiences three centuries ago. We are delighted to welcome back Sonia Prina for this programme, which promises to be a bright highlight of the season. £15 £25 £35 £40

Early Music and Baroque Series

Bennewitz Quartet

Pavel Ovsik

Sarah Fox

Graham Mellanby

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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS All events listed on pages 70 – 71 will open for booking on 31 May, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 5 October and 16 November, and Come and Sing on 30 November, which go on sale to Friends on 3 May and to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May.

We are grateful to Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust for their support of our Family Programme, and to The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust and The Monument Trust for their support of our Schools’ Programme

September/October

Friday 4 October 11.00 am – 12 noon

Tuesday 29 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Watch This Space

Songlives

KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY

Join principal players of Aurora Orchestra for a musical journey to outer space! John Barber presents a programme of interplanetary music including extracts from Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony and Holst’s The Planets, as well as brand new music created by you, the audience, during the course of the concert.

For age 5 plus

£2.50

Have you ever wondered about the real life stories behind songs? Work together as a family under the expert guidance of vocalist and workshop leader, Isabelle Adams, to uncover inspiration from people, places and events in your own life and create lyrics and music to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage.

Adults £12 Children £8

www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Saturday 14 September 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Travels Through Time

Saturday 5 October 11.00 am – 12 noon

Watch This Space FAMILY CONCERT

FAMILY DAY

For age 5 plus

For age 5 plus

A repeat of the Watch This Space schools’ concert on 4 October, for families.

Musician Neil Valentine and an artist from The Wallace Collection guide you through a day of time travel.

Find inspiration from The Collection’s incredible galleries and exhibits, then take your ideas back to Wigmore Hall to create your own musical work of art.

Adults £7 Children £5 www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Adults £12 Children £8

In partnership with The Wallace Collection

Saturday 21 September 11.00 am – 3.00 pm

Open House Day An opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at Wigmore Hall: follow the trail to discover musicians playing around the building and join in with workshops taking place throughout the day.

Admission free (no booking required)

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October/November Saturday 16 November 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Saturday 30 November 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Brass Jaw Jazz Unravelled

Come and Sing: Tippett

FAMILY CONCERT

Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults with the chance to sing some of Tippett’s beautiful music for voices. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Everyone welcome, no need to read music.

For age 5 plus Brass Jaw brings its trademark energy, drive and humour to a family audience in this interactive concert, which unravels and explains how jazz is put together, using a unique mixture of jazz tradition and exciting new music.

£18 concs £10

‘Proving that Jazz can be Funky, intelligent and riotously entertaining’ Jazz UK Adults £7 Children £5 www.benjaminharte.co.uk

In partnership with London Jazz Festival

Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm both days

Ignition

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HALF-TERM COURSE For ages 11 to 16

Chamber Zone Ticket Scheme

Calling all young musicians! Join Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite and fire up your creativity! Our Ignition half-term course will offer you the opportunity to create new music with your instrument and re-imagine old, as well as bringing out your inner composer to write a soundtrack for film clips, and much, much more. Meet new friends, play with professional musicians and even perform your new works on the Wigmore Hall stage!

Over the last six years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 4000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, the scheme aims to provide access to high quality chamber music and to raise musical aspirations through accompanying workshops with professional musicians and composers.

£40 for the 2-day course

Wednesday 6 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Arcadia Quartet

Brass Jaw

GCSE AND A-LEVEL SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

Calum Morrell

For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book, visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

Dynamic winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia Quartet performs a diverse programme which includes works by Haydn (featured on the AQA GCSE and EdExcel A-Level syllabuses) and Debussy (AQA A-Level Music in Context). Presenter Rachel Leach takes you behind the music in this interactive concert, offering new insights into the structure and context of the pieces. Supported by a teachers’ resource pack linked to the GCSE and A-Level curriculum. £2.50

Arcadia Quartet

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Contemporary Music Series Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières.

‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly.

‘We plan to present up to 20 commissions per season from 2013 and make Wigmore Hall one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Booking for all concerts in this series opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May and to the General Public on 31 May. Full details for each concert are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order

Wednesday 18 September 7.30 pm

Saturday 19 October 4.00 pm

Inon Barnatan piano

Quatuor Diotima

Matthias Pintscher* & Ronald Stevenson

Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Barraqué & Toshio Hosokawa*

Sunday 13 October 7.30 pm

Thursday 24 October 7.30 pm

Quatuor Ebène Antoine Tamestit viola

Matthew Barley cello

Bruno Mantovani*

Wednesday 16 October 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet Brian Ferneyhough, Hilda Paredes, John Cage & more

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Dai Fujikura, James MacMillan, John Tavener & Jan Bang / Barley

Monday 28 October 7.30 pm

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Jörg Widmann*

Saturday 2 November 1.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Wednesday 5 February 2014 1.00 pm

Monday 14 April 2014 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Claire Booth soprano Adam Walker flute Mark Simpson clarinet András Keller violin Paul Silverthorne viola Cédric Tiberghien piano

Roderick Williams baritone Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougan

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Julian Anderson, Gérard Grisey, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Hans Abrahamsen & Salvatore Sciarrino

Zhou Long*

director of Britten Sinfonia Voices Roderick Williams* Sunday 9 February 2014 7.30 pm

Sunday 27 April 2014 7.30 pm

Ensemble intercontemporain Yann Robin* & György Kurtág

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote soprano Judith Weir*

Wednesday 7 May 2014 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Brett Dean* & Georg Tintner

Sunday 9 March 2014 7.30 pm Sunday 3 November 7.30 pm

Xuefei Yang guitar

Brentano String Quartet

Friday 9 May 2014 7.30 pm

Steve Mackey

The Other Ebène

Wednesday 19 March 2014 1.00 pm

A jazz concert to include songs by Charlie Chaplin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sting & Michael Jackson

Chen Yi* Wednesday 6 November 7.30 pm

EXAUDI Michael Finnissy*, Christopher Fox* & Stefano Gervasoni*

Britten Sinfonia A new work by the winner of the University of Cambridge Composers Workshop*

Arditti Quartet Wednesday 19 March 2014 7.30 pm

Friday 22 November 7.30 pm

The Prince Consort

Thursday 15 May 2014 7.30 pm

Marino Formenti piano Composers to be announced

Giacinto Scelsi, Helmut Lachenmann, Luis de Pablo & Julian Anderson* Tuesday 3 June 2014 7.30 pm

Cheryl Frances-Hoad* & Gwilym Simcock* Wednesday 26 March 2014 7.30 pm Wednesday 11 December 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia Sally Beamish*

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Simon Lepper piano Iain Bell* Friday 20 June 2014 7.00 pm

Saturday 4 January 2014 7.30 pm

Elliott Carter & John Adams

Apartment House

Sunday 6 April 2014 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Laurence Crane, Christopher Fox, Peter Garland, Amnon Wolman, Mathias Spahlinger, Rytis Mažulis & Reinhold Friedl

Momo Kodama piano

Oliver Knussen, Gerald Barry, Colin Matthews, Elliott Carter & more

Thursday 23 January 2014 7.30 pm

Monday 7 April 2014 7.30 pm

JACK Quartet

Colin Currie percussion

Ruth Crawford Seeger, Christopher Trapani*, Julian Anderson & Horatiu Radulescu

Elliott Carter, Per Nørgård, Toshio Hosokawa, Bruno Mantovani, Dave Maric, Joseph Pereira & Rolf Wallin*

Toshio Hosokawa* * Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

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SPRING PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2014

These concerts (except where stated) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2013.

January 2014 Saturday 4 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 5 January 7.30 pm

Monday 6 January 7.30 pm

Apartment House

Dante Quartet

Alexei Volodin piano

Laurence Crane Sparling 2000 Christopher Fox Memento Peter Garland Where beautiful feathers abound Amnon Wolman Dead End Mathias Spahlinger 128 Erfüllte Augenblicke Rytis Mažulis Canon mensurabilis Christopher Fox Blank Reinhold Friedl String Quartet No. 1

Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 50 No. 5 Kodály String Quartet No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Ravel Miroirs Chopin Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante Op. 22

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series

Monday 6 January 1.00 pm

Tuesday 7 January 7.30 pm

James Ehnes violin Andrew Armstrong piano

Matthias Goerne baritone Leif Ove Andsnes piano

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Mahler Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft from Five Rückert Lieder Shostakovich Morgen from Michelangelo Suite Mahler Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Shostakovich Trennung from Michelangelo Suite Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Es sungen drei Engel; Das irdische Leben Mahler From Kindertotenlieder: Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen; Wenn dein Mütterlein Mahler Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Shostakovich From Michelangelo Suite: Nacht; Unsterblichkeit; Dante Mahler Revelge from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Shostakovich Tod from Michelangelo Suite Mahler Der Tamboursg’sell from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

£15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Contemporary Music Series

Sunday 5 January 11.30 am

Navarra String Quartet

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series/Matthias Goerne: ‘A Celebration’

Apartment House

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James Ehnes

Benjamin Ealovega

January 2014 Wednesday 8 January 7.30 pm

Sunday 12 January 11.30 am

Monday 13 January 1.00 pm

Christian Zacharias piano

Guy Braunstein violin Ohad Ben-Ari piano

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Chausson Poème Op. 25 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Falla Danza española

Programme to include: Berlioz Les nuits d’été Op. 7

Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310; Piano Sonata in F K533 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 London Pianoforte Series

Friday 10 January 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Gary Hoffman cello David Selig piano

Sunday 12 January 4.00 pm

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38; Sonata Op. 78 (cello transcription of Violin Sonata); Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 11 January 7.30 pm

Michael Collins clarinet Michael McHale piano Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Weber Grand Duo Concertante in E b Op. 48 Bernstein Clarinet Sonata Lutosławski Dance Preludes Muczynski Time Pieces Op. 43 Joseph Horovitz Sonatina

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 13 January 7.30 pm

Adam Plachetka bass-baritone Gary Matthewman piano Dvorˇák Zigeunermelodien (Gypsy Songs) Sibelius Kyssens hopp; Drömmen; Vilse; Svarta rosor; Säv, säv, susa; Demanten på marssnön; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht; Nachtgang; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Zueignung Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder: Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber; Mahnung; Seit ich so viele Weiber sah (Arie aus dem Spiegel von Arkadien)

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Hanno Müller-Brachmann bass-baritone

Malcolm Martineau piano SONGLIVES: BRAHMS Song Recital Series/Songlives

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season

Michael Collins

Benjamin Ealovega

Adam Plachetka

Ilona Sochorová

Bernarda Fink

Klemen Breitfuss

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January 2014 Tuesday 14 January 7.30 pm

ECMA Showcase

Saturday 18 January 7.30 pm

Renaud Capuçon violin Khatia Buniatishvili piano

Friday 17 January 1.00 pm

Vienna Piano Trio

Saturday 18 January 11.00 am – Masterclass

Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Henze Kammersonate Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49

Programme to include: Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 Sz. 76 Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’ Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 15 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 18 January 4.00 pm Sunday 19 January 4.00 pm

Chamber Music Season

Wu String Quartet Streeton Trio Arcadia Quartet Cuarteto Quiroga

Sunday 19 January 11.30 am

Trio Goya

Gerald Finley baritone Julius Drake piano

Programme to include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, György Kurtág and Ligeti

Schubert Winterreise

Chamber Music Season

Haydn Piano Trio in A b HXV:14 Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 Haydn Piano Trio in C HXV:27 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series Monday 20 January 1.00 pm

Friday 17 January 7.30 pm Thursday 16 January 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio

Mark Padmore tenor Steven Osborne piano Craig Ogden guitar Heath Quartet*

Richard Egarr harpsichord Bach English Suites Handel Harpsichord Suites Early Music and Baroque Series

Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66

Tippett String Quartet No. 4; The Blue Guitar; Songs for Achilles; Piano Sonata No. 4

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season/Spotlight on Steven Osborne / Tippett: A Retrospective

Richard Egarr

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Marco Borggreve

Mark Padmore

Marco Borggreve

Vienna Piano Trio

Nancy Horowitz

January 2014 Monday 20 January 7.30 pm

Wednesday 22 January 7.00 pm NB starting time

Friday 24 January 7.30 pm

Angelika Kirchschlager

La Nuova Musica Lucy Crowe as Issipile

Sara Mingardo contralto Stefano Montanari harpsichord

Tenor to be announced

Programme to be announced

mezzo-soprano

Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano Brahms Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund; Soll sich der Mond nicht heller scheinen; Da unten im Tale; Feinsliebchen; Intermezzo in A Op. 118 No. 2 (for solo piano); Meine Liebe ist grün; Über die Heide; Der Gang zum Liebchen; Nachtwandler; Versunken; O komme, holde Sommernacht; Therese; Von ewiger Liebe Liszt Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Consolation No. 3 in Db (for solo piano); Es war ein König in Thule; O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst; Die drei Zigeuner; Der du von dem Himmel bist

Lawrence Zazzo as Giasone Flavio Ferri-Benedetti as Learco Madeleine Shaw as Eurinome Rebecca Bottone as Rodope David Bates director Conti Issipile Early Music and Baroque Series Thursday 23 January 7.30 pm

Song Recital Series

JACK Quartet Tuesday 21 January 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Michael Gees piano Loewe Der Nöck Schubert Der Zwerg; Die Bürgschaft Lachner Die Meerfrau Gees Der Zauberlehrling Liszt Die Loreley Wolf Ritter Kurts Brautfahrt Lachner Der wunde Ritter Killmayer Schön-Rohtraut Lachner Ein Traumbild Loewe Edward Schumann Belsatzar Loewe Tom der Reimer Wolf Der Feuerreiter

Ruth Crawford Seeger String Quartet Christopher Trapani New work (world première)* Brian Ferneyhough Exordium Julian Anderson String Quartet No. 1 ‘Light Music’ (London première) Horatiu Radulescu String Quartet No. 5 ‘before the universe was born’ (UK première) * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Early Music and Baroque Series

Saturday 25 January 7.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Latonia Moore soprano Kim Criswell mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano AMERICAN SONG Copland Old American Songs:The Boatmen’s Dance; Long Time Ago; The Little Horses; At the River Ives In the Alley; The Greatest Man; The Circus Band Barber Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet Gershwin Songs from Porgy and Bess Bernstein Broadway Songs from On the Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet Weill Broadway songs including The Saga of Jenny, My Ship, Lonely House, September Song (arr. for voice and ensemble by Richard Rodney Bennett) Chamber Music Season/ Nash Ensemble American Series

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series

Contemporary Music Series /Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees

JACK Quartet

Henrik Olund

Kim Criswell

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January 2014 Saturday 25 January 10.00 pm

Sunday 26 January 7.30 pm

Tuesday 28 January 7.30 pm

Joshua Rifkin piano

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Wolfram Rieger piano

Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano

Beethoven La partenza; In questa tomba oscura; Hoffnung; L’amante impatiente Reichardt Canzon, s’al dolce loco; Erano i capei d’oro a l’aura sparsi; O poggi, o valli, o fiumi, o selve, o campi; Più volte già dal bel sembiante umano; Dico ch’ad ora ad ora; Pace non trovo; Di tempo in tempo mi si fa men dura; Or che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace Brahms Alte Liebe; Sommerfäden; O kühler Wald; Verzagen; Unüberwindlich Liszt Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen; In Liebeslust; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß; Die Loreley; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh; Wieder möcht ich dir begegnen; Die drei Zigeuner; Lieder aus Schillers Wilhelm Tell: Der Fischerknabe; Der Hirt; Der Alpenjäger

Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

SCOTT JOPLIN RAGS Nash Ensemble American Series

Sunday 26 January 11.30 am

Jennifer Pike violin Tom Poster piano Mozart Violin Sonata in G K301 Janácˇek Violin Sonata Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 Rózsa Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song Op. 4 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series

Wednesday 29 January 7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet 35th Anniversary Series

The Endellion String Quartet David Adams viola Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Mozart String Quintet in D K593 Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series Sunday 26 January 4.00 pm

Katherine Broderick soprano Andrei Bondarenko baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Monday 27 January 1.00 pm

Florian Boesch baritone Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

SONGLIVES: MUSORGSKY AND RACHMANINOV Song Recital Series/Songlives

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Jennifer Pike

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Eric Richmond

Luca Pisaroni

Marco Borggreve

Mauro Peter

Franziska Schroedinger

January/February 2014 Thursday 30 January 7.30 pm

Saturday 1 February 7.30 pm

Monday 3 February 1.00 pm

Classical Opera Matthew Rose bass Ian Page conductor

Janine Jansen violin Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano Izabella Simon piano

Sean Shibe guitar

Haydn Symphony No. 47 in G; Son vecchio, son furbo from Le pescatrici; Non v’è rimedio from L’infedeltà delusa; Già la morte in manto nero from La vera costanza; Salva, salva ... aiuto, aiuto from La fedeltà premiata Mozart Symphony No.15 in G K124; From La finta semplice K51: Ella vuole ed io torrei & Ubriaco non son io; From Zaide K344: Ihr Mächtigen seht ungerührt & Wer hungrig beider Tafel sitzt; From Le nozze di Figaro K492: Se vuol ballare, signor Contino Early Music and Baroque Series

Friday 31 January 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced Sean Shibe is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

Stravinsky Easy Piano Duets Poulenc Violin Sonata Martinu° Cello Sonata No. 1 Walton Duets for Children Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Tuesday 4 February 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season /Music in the Shadow of War

Alexander Melnikov piano Sunday 2 February 11.30 am

Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 (Nos. 13– 24)

Signum Quartet

London Pianoforte Series

Ravel String Quartet in F Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’

ATOS Trio

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

SCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B b D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 Chamber Music Season

Sunday 2 February 4.00 pm

Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

ATOS Trio

Steven Haberland

Clara Mouriz

J M Bielsa

Sean Shibe

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February 2014 Wednesday 5 February 12.15 pm

Thursday 6 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 9 February 11.30 am

Pre-Concert Talk

Razumovsky Ensemble

An introduction to the lunchtime concert

Programme to be announced

Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano

Free (ticket required)

Chamber Music Season

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1 Dvorˇák Klid (Silent Woods) Op. 68 No. 5 Strauss Cello Sonata in F Op. 6

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 7 February 7.30 pm Wednesday 5 February 1.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Roderick Williams baritone Joy Farrall clarinet Huw Watkins piano Britten Sinfonia Voices Eamonn Dougan director Schubert Partsongs Schumann Auf einer Burg; Mondnacht Roderick Williams Red Herring Blues for solo clarinet; New work for voices, clarinet and piano (London première)* *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Kate Royal soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schubert An Silvia; Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; An den Mond; Rastlose Liebe; Heimliches Lieben; Im Frühling; Nachtviolen; An die Nachtigall; An die Musik; Abendstern; Frühlingsglaube; Delphine Mahler Frühlingsmorgen; Erinnerung; Scheiden und Meiden from Des Knaben Wunderhorn; From Five Rückert Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft & Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Strauss Ich trage meine Minne; Das Rosenband; Einerlei; Malven; September from Four Last Songs

Sunday 9 February 7.30 pm

Aurora Orchestra Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton tenor Britten Serenade Op. 31 for tenor, horn and strings Judith Weir New work (world première)* *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Song Recital Series

£15 £25 £35 £40

£12.50 concs £10

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 5 February 7.30 pm

Carducci String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Bartók String Quartet No. 4

Saturday 8 February 7.30 pm

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Angela Hewitt piano Andrea Oliva flute Julia Schröder violin

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Bach Flute Sonata in A BWV1032; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Violin Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019 Bach From The Musical Offering BWV1079: Ricercar a 3; Ricercar a 6; Trio Sonata in C minor Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season

Roderick Williams

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Benjamin Ealovega

Kate Royal

Esther Haase/EMI Classics

Gemma Rosefield

Marco Borggreve

February 2014 Monday 10 February 1.00 pm

Thursday 13 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 February 6.00 pm

Ehnes Quartet

Angelika Kirchschlager

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Bartók String Quartet No. 3

mezzo-soprano

Nash Ensemble

Simon Lepper piano

HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPOSERS

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 11 February 7.30 pm

Soile Isokoski soprano Ilkka Paananen piano Songs by Schubert, Kuula, Brahms & Strauss

TWILIGHT OF THE ROMANTICS Wolf Auf einer Wanderung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Er ist’s; Lebe wohl; Elfenlied Strauss Nichts; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Das Rosenband; Für fünfzehn Pfennige Marx Die Liebste spricht; Am Brunnen; Sendung; Die tote Braut; Bitte; Hat dich die Liebe berührt Korngold Fünf Lieder Op. 38 Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Marx Ein junger Dichter denkt an die Geliebte; Der bescheidene Schäfer; Lob des Frühlings; Nachts; Schlafend trägt man mich in mein Heimatland!; Der Ton Song Recital Series /Joseph Marx Song Series

Song Recital Series

Friday 14 February 7.30 pm

Wednesday 12 February 7.30 pm

Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Steven Osborne piano Prokofiev Sarcasms Ravel Miroirs Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 36 London Pianoforte Series /Spotlight on Steven Osborne

Chamber Music Season

Max Steiner Piano miniatures from Gone with the Wind Franz Waxman Four Scenes of Childhood for violin and piano Bernard Herrmann Souvenirs de voyage for clarinet quintet Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble American Series

Saturday 15 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend conductor Ian Brown piano Simon Crawford-Phillips piano MUSIC FOR FILM, THEATRE & DANCE Copland Music for Movies (arr. David Matthews) Franz Waxman From Hollywood Suite: The Young in Heart; Come Back, Little Sheba Grainger Fantasy on Porgy and Bess for two pianos Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (arr. by John Musto for two pianos) Copland Appalachian Spring Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble American Series

Sergey & Lusine Khachatryan

Steven Haberland

Angelika Kirchschlager

Nikolaus Karlinsky

Soile Isokoski

Heikki Tuuli

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February 2014 Sunday 16 February 11.30 am

Monday 17 February 1.00 pm

Tuesday 18 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Angela Hewitt piano

Cantus Cölln Konrad Junghänel director

Nash Ensemble Johann Strauss II Waltz: Wo die Zitronen blüh’n!

(Where the Lemon Trees Bloom!) Op. 364 (arr. for string sextet) Dvorˇák String Sextet in A Op. 48 Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Beethoven 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E b ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 Bach/D’Albert Passacaglia in C minor BWV582

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

JESU, MEINE FREUDE Bach Cantata: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV12; Motet: Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden BWV230; Cantata: Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee BWV18; Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4; Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday 16 February 4.00 pm

Monday 17 February 7.30 pm

Christopher Purves baritone Simon Lepper piano

Wednesday 19 February 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 20 February 7.30 pm

Elias String Quartet

Piotr Anderszewski piano

BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Sunday 16 February 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Truls Mørk cello Christian Ihle Hadland piano

Friday 21 February 7.30 pm

Programme to be announced

Nelson Goerner piano Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études)

Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series /Nelson Goerner Portrait Series

Truls Mørk

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Morten Krogvold/Virgin Classics

Piotr Anderszewski

K Miura

Konrad Junghänel

February 2014 Saturday 22 February 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 February 7.30 pm

Phantasm viol consort Laurence Dreyfus director

Tuesday 25 February 7.30 pm

Monday 24 February 7.30 pm

Richard Goode piano

Takács Quartet Graham Mitchell double bass

Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77

Sunday 23 February 11.30 am

Chamber Music Season /Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

Schubert 2 Impromptus from D899: No. 1 in C minor; No. 3 in G b; 2 Klavierstücke from D946: No. 1 in E b minor; No. 3 in C Chopin Mazurka in Bb Op. 17 No. 1; Mazurka in B minor Op. 30 No. 2; Mazurka in Ab Op. 41 No. 3; Mazurka in C # minor Op. 30 No. 4; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61 Debussy Préludes Book I London Pianoforte Series

Programme to be announced Monday 24 February 1.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Wednesday 26 February 7.30 pm

Ingolf Wunder piano Sunday 23 February 4.00 pm

Royal Academy of Music Song Circle

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52

A GOETHE PALINDROME A recital of celebrated Goethe poems set to music

by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf

Scottish Ensemble Sophie Harmsen mezzo-soprano Haas Study for Strings Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings

by David Matthews) Handel Arias Suk Serenade for strings in Eb Op. 6 Chamber Music Season

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Song Recital Series

Quatuor Apollon Musagète

Marco Borggreve

Ingolf Wunder

Patrick Walter/DG

Richard Goode

Sasha Gusov

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February/March 2014 Thursday 27 February 7.30 pm

Saturday 1 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 2 March 4.00 pm

The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips director

Julia Fischer violin Daniel Müller-Schott cello Simon Trpcˇeski piano

Pumeza Matshikiza soprano Julius Drake piano

Josquin des Prez Motet: Gaude virgo, mater Christi; Missa ‘Hercules dux Ferrariae’ Gombert Motet: Musae Jovis; Motet: Ave Maria Byrd Plorans ploravit; Ne irascaris, Domine; Laetentur coeli; Vigilate Early Music and Baroque Series

Programme to be announced

Haydn Piano Trio in G HXV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’ Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season /Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’

Sunday 2 March 7.30 pm

Wihan Quartet Friday 28 February 7.30 pm

Anthony Marwood violin Martin Fröst clarinet Marc-André Hamelin piano Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 Debussy Première rapsodie Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale Suite (arr. violin, clarinet and piano) Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano

Sunday 2 March 11.30 am

Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Martinu° String Quartet No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Benjamin Frith piano Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Mendelssohn Songs without Words: Book 6 Op. 67 (complete) Stanford Three Rhapsodies from Dante Op. 92

Chamber Music Season

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Chamber Music Season/Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

The Tallis Scholars

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Eric Richmond

Pumeza Matshikiza

March 2014 Monday 3 March 1.00 pm

Thursday 6 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 8 March 7.30 pm

Leonard Elschenbroich cello Alexei Grynyuk piano

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director, flute Geoffrey Govier fortepiano Terence Charlston harpsichord

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Programme to be announced Leonard Elschenbroich is a member of Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

CPE BACH CELEBRATION CONCERT CPE Bach Symphony No. 4 in A Wq. 182; Flute Sonata in A minor Wq. 132; Quartet in D Wq. 94; Trio Sonata in C minor Wq. 161 ‘Sanguineus and Melancholicus’; Concerto in Eb Wq. 47 for harpsichord, fortepiano and orchestra

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 5 March 7.30 pm

Belcea Quartet Purcell Fantasias Nos. 6, 8, 10 & 11 Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ‘Metamorphoses nocturnes’ Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 Chamber Music Season

Nash Ensemble David White conductor Kim Criswell mezzo-soprano William Burden tenor With guest soloists A CELEBRATION OF RICHARD RODGERS ON BROADWAY: ACT III Programme to include concert selections with narration from the musical Do I hear a Waltz? with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Friday 7 March 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season / Nash Ensemble American Series

Ralph Kirshbaum cello Shai Wosner piano

Sunday 9 March 11.30 am

Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1 Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Kodály Sonata for cello and piano Op. 4 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Benyounes Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Leonard Elschenbroich

Felix Broede

Benyounes Quartet

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March 2014 Sunday 9 March 7.30 pm

Wednesday 12 March 7.30 pm

Saturday 15 March 7.30 pm

Brentano String Quartet

Rudolf Buchbinder piano

Monday 17 March 7.30 pm

Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 Steve Mackey New work (UK première) Elgar String Quartet in E minor Op. 83

Programme to include Beethoven sonatas London Pianoforte Series

£15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Monday 10 March 1.00 pm

Thursday 13 March 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Friday 14 March 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Schumann From Myrthen: Freisinn; Talismane; Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Zwei Venetianische Lieder; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Zum Schluss Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39; Die Löwenbraut Kernerlieder Op. 35

Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass

Song Recital Series

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Sunday 16 March 11.30 am

Brentano String Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano

Heath Quartet Thursday 13 March 7.30 pm

Anne Schwanewilms soprano Charles Spencer piano

Tippett String Quartet No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T

Programme to be announced

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Tippett: A Retrospective

Monday 10 March 7.30 pm

Friday 14 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 16 March 7.30 pm

Gallicantus

Zehetmair Quartet

Programme to be announced

Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet in E b D87 Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Elizabeth Watts soprano Simon Lepper piano

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE Programme to include: Songs by Strauss, Britten and Duparc Britten The Poet’s Echo Op. 76 Song Recital Series

Brentano String Quartet

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Christian Steiner

Rudolf Buchbinder

Elizabeth Watts

Marco Borggreve

March 2014 Monday 17 March 1.00 pm

Wednesday 19 March 1.00 pm

Thursday 20 March 7.30 pm

Andrei Bondarenko baritone

Britten Sinfonia

Pianist to be announced

Joy Farrall clarinet Sarah Burnett bassoon Stephen Bell horn Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Stephen Williams double bass

Sylvia Schwartz soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Ibert Quatre Chansons de Don Quichotte Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Sviridov Songs from Otchalivshaya Rus and Petersburg Songs by Gavrilin

Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20 A new work by William Cole, winner of the University of Cambridge Composers Workshop* *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12.50 concs £10

Tuesday 18 March 7.30 pm

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen director

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Friday 21 March 7.30 pm

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Nuria Rial soprano L’AMORE INNAMORATO Arie, Lamenti and Sinfonie by Francesco Cavalli This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval

MONTEVERDI MADRIGALS

Wednesday 19 March 7.30 pm

£15 £20 £25 £30

Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel per l’immortal sentiero; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Ohimé dov’è il mio ben?; Ohimé il bel viso; Sestina Madrigals; Zefiro torna

Marino Formenti piano

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Programme to be announced

Early Music and Baroque Series / L’Arpeggiata Baroque Residency

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 19 March 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Jonathan Cohen

Pascal Gély

Marino Formenti

David Ruano

Sylvia Schwartz

Enrico Nawrath

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March 2014 Saturday 22 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 March 4.00 pm

Monday 24 March 7.30 pm

Stile Antico

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Christoph Schnackertz piano

Szymanowski Quartet

THE BATTLE OF FLORENCE – MUSIC FOR THE MEDICI AND SAVONAROLA’S ‘REPUBLIC OF FLORENCE’ Dufay Nuper rosarum flores Bettini Ecce quam bonus Richafort O quam dulcis Josquin des Prez Miserere mei, Deus Mouton Nesciens Mater Isaac Optime pastor bonus Byrd Infelix ego Verdalot Letamini in Domino Festa Florentia Clemens non Papa Tristis obsedit me Porta Credo from Missa Ducalis

Wolf Er ist’s Schubert Im Frühling; Das Lied im Grünen Wolf Frühlingsglocken Schubert Viola Wolf Nachruf; Abendbilder Schubert Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Zwerg Wolf Die Geister am Mummelsee; Waldmädchen

Trio con Brio Copenhagen Haydn Piano Trio in C HXV:27 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15

Bennewitz Quartet

Tuesday 25 March 7.30 pm

director, harpsichord

Sunday 23 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 23 March 11.30 am

Chamber Music Season

The English Concert Laurence Cummings

Song Recital Series

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wacław z Szamotuł 4 Polish Chorales Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Szymanowski String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106

Chamber Music Season

Telemann Suite in Bb from Tafelmusik CPE Bach String Symphony JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 Telemann Concerto in E for flute, oboe d’amore and viola d’amore TWV53:E1 JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’

Monday 24 March 1.00 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Belcea Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Webern Langsamer Satz

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Stile Antico

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Marco Borggreve

Anna Lucia Richter

Marco Borggreve

Szymanowski Quartet

Marco Borggreve

March 2014 Wednesday 26 March 6.00 pm

Friday 28 March 7.30 pm

Sunday 30 March 7.30 pm

Pre-Concert Talk

Pavel Haas Quartet

Broadcaster and writer Tom Service will talk about the works to be presented in the evening concert.

Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in D minor Dvorˇák String Quartet in E b Op. 51 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

£3

Booking for this event opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Nash Ensemble American Series

Chamber Music Season

director, harpsichord

Valérie Gabail soprano Gilone Gaubert-Jacques violin Lucille Boulanger viola da gamba

Saturday 29 March 7.30 pm

RAMEAU ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Wednesday 26 March 7.30 pm

Gerald Finley baritone Julius Drake piano

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Songs by Sibelius and Liszt

Nash Ensemble Claire Booth soprano Richard Hosford clarinet

Song Recital Series

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Sunday 30 March 11.30 am

Early Music and Baroque Series / Les Talens Lyriques Series

NASH INVENTIONS AMERICAN MASTERWORKS

Pacifica Quartet

Monday 31 March 1.00 pm

Barber Summer Music for wind quintet Op. 31 Carter Mosaic for harp, flute, oboe, clarinet and string trio* Carter Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet John Adams Shaker Loops for string septet

Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 92 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Rameau Pièces de clavecin en concerts; Cantata: Orphée £18 £25 £30 £35

Nina Stemme

soprano Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

*Nash commission

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

£12 £18 £22 £25

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Contemporary Music Series /Nash Ensemble American Series

Claire Booth

Sven Arnstein

Pacifica Quartet

Saverio Truglia

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SUMMER PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2014

These concerts (except where stated) are not bookable on this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late December 2013.

April 2014 Tuesday 1 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 5 April 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Sunday 6 April 11.30 am

Marc-André Hamelin piano Pacifica Quartet

Family Concert Colin Currie percussion

Tai Murray violin Ángel Sanzo piano

Marc-André Hamelin Passacaglia for piano quintet Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Ornstein Piano Quintet

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Lalo Fantaisie originale Op. 1 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18

Chamber Music Season/ Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

Saturday 5 April 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Joshua Bell violin Henning Kraggerud violin Rachel Roberts viola Steven Isserlis cello Dénes Várjon piano

Thursday 3 April 7.30 pm

Razumovsky Ensemble Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Janácˇek Violin Sonata Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

Friday 4 April 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Masterclass Colin Currie percussion

Sunday 6 April 4.00 pm

Christiane Karg soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/Music in the Shadow of War

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Colin Currie

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Marco Borggreve

Joshua Bell

Lise Marie Mazzucco

Tai Murray

Marco Borggreve

April 2014 Sunday 6 April 7.30 pm

Monday 7 April 7.30 pm

Wednesday 9 April 7.30 pm

Momo Kodama piano

Colin Currie percussion

Andreas Haefliger piano

Bach Toccata in D BWV912 Toshio Hosokawa Etude I – VI for piano (UK première)* Debussy Études Books I & II

Carter Figment V for solo marimba Per Nørgård Fire Over Water from I Ching Toshio Hosokawa Reminiscence Bruno Mantovani Moi, jeu ...

Dave Maric Sense and Innocence (world première of new version) Joseph Pereira Word of Mouth Rolf Wallin New work for solo marimba*

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier; Luftklavier; Feuerklavier Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17

* Co-commissioned by Lucerne Festival, Tokyo Opera City and Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

* Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Monday 7 April 1.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 10 April 7.30 pm

London Handel Players Adrian Butterfield director, violin Programme to include: Works by Leclair and Rameau Early Music and Baroque Series

Emerson String Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142 Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday 8 April 7.30 pm

Friday 11 April 7.30 pm

Emerson String Quartet

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Beethoven Three String Quartets Op. 59 ‘Razumovsky’

Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 20 No. 1 Verdi String Quartet in E minor Osvaldo Golijov Qohelet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season

Momo Kodama

Vincent Garnier

Andreas Haefliger

Marco Borggreve

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Marco Borggreve

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April 2014 Saturday 12 April 7.30 pm

Monday 14 April 1.00 pm

Tuesday 15 April 7.30 pm

Le Poème Harmonique Vincent Dumestre director

Artists to be announced

Markus Werba baritone

Programme to be announced

Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced

Lalande Leçons de ténèbres

Song Recital Series

Early Music and Baroque Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 13 April 11.30 am

Wednesday 16 April 7.30 pm

St. Lawrence String Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 14 in A b Op. 105

Monday 14 April 7.30 pm

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Benjamin Beilman violin Paul Neubauer viola David Finckel cello David Shifrin clarinet Wu Han piano Inon Barnatan piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert ` Sunday 13 April 4.00 pm

Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Henning Ruhe piano Songs by Strauss, Brahms, Verdi, Dvorˇák and Respighi Song Recital Series

Sunday 13 April 7.30 pm

Vilde Frang violin Michail Lifits piano

Beethoven Piano Quartet in E b Op. 16 Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114 Zhou Long New work for piano, clarinet, violin and viola (UK première)* Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15

viola da gamba

LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

£18 £25 £30 £35

£15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

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Amel Brahim-Djelloul soprano Judith van Wanroij soprano François Joubert-Caillet

*Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honor of Wu Han and David Finckel; and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Marco Borggreve

director, harpsichord, organ

Charpentier Seconde leçon du jeudi; Septième répons après la première leçon du troisième nocturne; Cinquième répons après la seconde leçon du second nocturne; Second répons après la seconde leçon du premier nocturne Couperin Trois Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint

Programme to be announced

Vilde Frang

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

Markus Werba

Early Music and Baroque Series / Les Talens Lyriques Series

Christophe Rousset

Ignacio Barrios Martinez

April 2014 Thursday 17 April 7.30 pm

Tuesday 22 April 7.30 pm

Thursday 24 April 7.30 pm

The English Concert Bernard Labadie conductor Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto

Miklós Perényi cello András Schiff piano

Joshua Redman saxophone Satoshi Takeishi percussion Scott Colley double bass Escher String Quartet

Vivaldi Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 Vivaldi Stabat Mater RV621 Pergolesi Stabat Mater

Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Kodály Sonatina Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Chamber Music Season

Joshua Redman explores a new direction in this genre-bending project, blending jazz, classical and world music styles. A collection of pieces composed and arranged by Patrick Zimmerli that can be played separately or together as a concert-length performance, Aspects of Darkness and Light is a study in contrasts, alternating between funky romps and up-tempo jazz, rich strings and earthy trio jams.

Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday 20 April 11.30 am

Kathleen Ferrier Award 2014

Danish String Quartet

Wednesday 23 April 2.00 pm SEMI-FINAL

Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

ASPECTS OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT

£15 £20 £25 £30

Friday 25 April 6.00 pm FINAL

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Joshua Redman Jazz Series

Monday 21 April 1.00 pm

Trio Wanderer Programme to be announced

Wednesday 23 April 7.30 pm

Saturday 26 April 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Henk Neven baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Steven Osborne piano Heath Quartet Tippett Piano Sonata Nos. 2 & 3 Tippet String Quartet No. 5

SONGLIVES: DUPARC

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

London Pianoforte Series/Chamber Music Season/ Spotlight on Steven Osborne /Tippett: A Retrospective

Song Recital Series/ Songlives

Trio Wanderer

Marco Borggreve

Sarah Connolly

Peter Warren

Joshua Redman

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April/May 2014 Sunday 27 April 11.30 am

Monday 28 April 1.00 pm

Tuesday 29 April 7.30 pm

Calder String Quartet

Toby Spence tenor

Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

Pianist to be announced

Yo-Yo Ma cello Kathryn Stott piano

Programme to be announced

Stravinsky Suite italienne from Pulcinella Villa-Lobos Alma Brasileira (arr. Jorge Calandrelli) Piazzolla Oblivion (arr. Kyoko Yamamoto) Guarnieri Dansa Negra (arr. Jorge Calandrelli) Falla 7 canciones populares españolas Messiaen Louange à l’éternité de Jésus Brahms Cello Sonata Op. 78 (cello transcription of Violin Sonata)

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 27 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Ensemble intercontemporain

Monday 28 April 7.30 pm

Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 György Kurtág Doloroso Yann Robin Da R. (Ommaggio a Bruno Mantovani)* György Kurtág Message-consolation à Christian Sutter from Signs, Games and Messages Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 György Kurtág Korál from Játékok György Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d

Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset

Chamber Music Season

director, harpsichord

Wednesday 30 April 7.30 pm

*Co-commissioned by Auditorium du Louvre, Ensemble intercontemporain and Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration, without an interval £15 £20 £25 £30

Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano

Jerusalem Quartet

ARIAS FOR FARINELLI Broschi Son qual nave ch’agitata from Artaserse; Ombra fedele anch ’io from Idaspe J C Bach Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Giacomelli Già presso al termine from Adriano in Siria Porpora Se pietoso il tuo labbro from Semiramide riconosciuta; Alto Giove from Polifemo Giacomelli Passagier che incerto from Adriano in Siria Hasse Overture to Cleofide Leo Che legge spietata from Arbace; Cervo in bosco from Catone in Utica

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F # minor Op. 108; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110; String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Chamber Music Season/Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Thursday 1 May 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118; String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122; String Quartet No. 12 in D b Op. 133

Early Music and Baroque Series / Les Talens Lyriques Series

Chamber Music Season/Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Ensemble intercontemporain

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Luc Hossepied

Yo-Yo Ma

Todd Rosenberg

May 2014 Friday 2 May 7.00 pm

Sunday 4 May 7.30 pm

Wednesday 7 May 12.15 pm

Stéphane Degout baritone Simon Lepper piano

Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists Rachel Podger director, violin

Pre-Concert Talk

Programme to include works by Schmelzer, Biber, Muffat and Zelenka

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Fauré Automne; Les roses d’Ispahan; L’horizon chimérique Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Schumann Dichterliebe

An introduction to the lunchtime concert Free (ticket required)

Early Music and Baroque Series

Song Recital Series

Saturday 3 May 7.30 pm

Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 13 in B b minor Op. 138; String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142; String Quartet No. 15 in E b minor Op. 144 Chamber Music Season/Jerusalem Quartet Shostakovich Cycle

Wednesday 7 May 1.00 pm

Monday 5 May 1.00 pm

Britten Sinfonia

Jonathan Biss piano

Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Brett Dean viola Caroline Dearnley cello

Beethoven Piano Sonata in F Op. 10 No. 2 Janácˇek On an overgrown path (excerpts) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59; 2 Nocturnes Op. 62; Polonaise-fantaisie in A b Op. 61

Allison Bell soprano Tintner Ellipse Brett Dean New work (London première)* Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor Op. 10 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £12.50 concs £10

Sunday 4 May 11.30 am BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

David Trio

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 1 No. 1 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8

Tuesday 6 May 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Wednesday 7 May 7.30 pm

Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080

Hilary Hahn violin

London Pianoforte Series

Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Stéphane Degout

Julien Benhamou

Rachel Podger

Jonas Sacks

Hilary Hahn

Peter Miller

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May 2014 Thursday 8 May 7.30 pm

Saturday 10 May 7.30 pm

Monday 12 May 1.00 pm

Classical Opera Sarah Fox soprano Roger Montgomery horn Ian Page conductor

Takács Quartet

Artists to be announced

Mozart Symphony in D K81; Lungi da te, mio bene (original version) from Mitridate, re di Ponto K87; Horn Concerto No. 2 in E b K417; Aer tranquillo e dì sereni from Il re pastore K208; Padre, germani, addio from Idomeneo K366; Allegro in E for horn and orchestra (completed Montgomery); Voi avete un cor fedele K217; Lungi da te, mio bene (final version) from Mitridate, re di Ponto K87 Early Music and Baroque Series

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Webern Five Movements Op. 5 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Chamber Music Season /Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 11 May 11.30 am

Monday 12 May 7.30 pm

Doric String Quartet

Takács Quartet Marc-André Hamelin piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127 Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Sunday 11 May 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists /Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

Friday 9 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

The Other Ebène Quatuor Ebène Stacey Kent singer Jim Tomlinson saxophone Fabrice Planchat sound engineer A jazz concert to include songs by Charlie Chaplin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sting and Michael Jackson. £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Programme to be announced

Stile Antico TREASURES OF THE RENAISSANCE – MASTERPIECES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHORAL MUSIC Works by Lassus, Byrd, Tallis, Tomkins, Sheppard, Gibbons, Palestrina, Victoria and Praetorius Huw Watkins New work (world première)*

Wednesday 14 May 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

*Commissioned by Nicholas and Judith Goodison

Early Music and Baroque Series

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

The Other Ebène

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Julien Mignot

Marc-André Hamelin

May 2014 Thursday 15 May 7.30 pm

Saturday 17 May 7.30 pm

Arditti Quartet

Nelson Goerner piano

Ronald Brautigam fortepiano

Scelsi String Quartet No. 4 Helmut Lachenmann String Quartet No. 2 ‘Reigen seliger Geister’ Luis de Pablo String Quartet No. 4 (UK première) Julian Anderson String Quartet No. 2 (world première)*

Brahms Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1; 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in B b Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

* Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Contemporary Music Series /Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Friday 16 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT Public Final Auditions 2014

Jupiter Quartet

Monday 19 May 1.00 pm

London Pianoforte Series /Nelson Goerner Portrait Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 18 May 11.30 am

Monday 19 May 7.30 pm

Jupiter Quartet

Elias String Quartet Malin Broman viola

Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36

BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quintet in C Op. 29; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Sunday 18 May 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season

Mark Padmore tenor Till Fellner piano

Tuesday 20 May 7.30 pm

Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Harrison Birtwistle Songs from the Same Earth (London première) Schumann Dichterliebe

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Programme to include works by Schubert London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series

Merri Cyr

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Julia Wesely

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May 2014 Wednesday 21 May 7.30 pm

Friday 23 May 7.30 pm

Monday 26 May 1.00 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Lucy Crowe soprano

Borodin Quartet Kun Woo Paik piano

Andreas Staier fortepiano

Vivaldi The Four Seasons Handel Cantata: Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida abbandonata) HWV105; Cantata: Alpestre monte HWV81; Arias from Agrippina HWV6 Early Music and Baroque Series / The English Concert 40th Anniversary Celebration

Programme to be announced

Programme to include: Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

Tuesday 27 May 7.30 pm Saturday 24 May 7.30 pm

Henk Neven baritone Hans Eijsackers piano

Julia Fischer Quartet Julia Fischer violin Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Nils Mönkemeyer viola Benjamin Nyffenegger cello

Thursday 22 May 7.30 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Schubert Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Der liebliche Stern; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Auf der Brücke; Heliopolis I & II; Abendbilder; Lied (Ins stille Land); Totengräbers Heimweh; Auf der Riesenkoppe; Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie hier gewesen; Die Forelle; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Fischerweise; Atys; Nachtviolen; Geheimnis; Im Walde Song Recital Series/Ian Bostridge: Schubert Lieder

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Chamber Music Season

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2 Chamber Music Season/Julia Fischer ‘Perspectives’

Wednesday 28 May 7.30 pm

The Endellion String Quartet 35th Anniversary Series

The Endellion String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 50 No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Sunday 25 May 11.30 am

Shai Wosner piano

Chamber Music Season

Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946; Piano Sonata in G D894 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Ian Bostridge

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Sussie Ahlburg/EMI Classics

Shai Wosner

Marco Borggreve

Henk Neven

Marco Borggreve

May/June 2014 Thursday 29 May 7.30 pm

Saturday 31 May 7.30 pm

Monday 2 June 1.00 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Gerald Finley baritone Julius Drake piano

Artists to be announced

Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Ligeti Etudes (selection) Debussy Préludes (selection) Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Programme to be announced

Programme to include: Schubert Schwanengesang BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

London Pianoforte Series Tuesday 3 June 7.30 pm Sunday 1 June 11.30 am Friday 30 May 7.30 pm

Zemlinsky Quartet

Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet director

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Simon Lepper piano

Programme to include: Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in Eb minor Op. 30

SACRED AND PROFANE

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Programme to include songs by Poulenc and Brahms and a new commission by Iain Bell *

THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH SACRED MUSIC Anon. (12th century) Beata viscera mariae virginis Charpentier Ouverture pour le sacre d’un évêque; Gaudete fideles Le Prince Missa macula non est in te Charpentier Gratiarum actiones pro restituta regis christianissimi sanitate Charpentier Offertoire sur les instruments Lully O dulcissime Domine Charpentier O pretiosum; Domine salvum fac regem; Magnificat Early Music and Baroque Series

*Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Sunday 1 June 7.30 pm

Florilegium Ashley Solomon director, flute Elin Manahan Thomas soprano Telemann Overture in F TWV55:F16 Vivaldi Motet: Nulla in mundo pax sincera; Concerto in C for 2 flutes RV533 Telemann Cantata: Ino

£15 £20 £25 £30

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 4 June 7.30 pm

Ingrid Fliter piano

Early Music and Baroque Series

Programme to include: Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 London Pianoforte Series

Le Concert Spirituel

J P Campion

Lawrence Zazzo

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June 2014 Thursday 5 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 June 4.00 pm

Monday 9 June 7.30 pm

Škampa Quartet

Evelina Dobraceva soprano Daniil Shtoda tenor Alexander Vinogradov bass Iain Burnside piano

Cyprien Katsaris piano

Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Chamber Music Season

Programme to include songs by Rachmaninov

Cyprien Katsaris Hommage au 19ème siècle (spontaneous improvisation on various themes) Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E b ‘Emperor’ Op. 73 (transcribed for solo piano by Katsaris) London Pianoforte Series

Song Recital Series Saturday 7 June 7.30 pm

Alina Ibragimova violin Steven Osborne piano

Tuesday 10 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 8 June 7.30 pm

Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Programme to be announced

Trio Jean Paul Brahms String Sextet in B b Op. 18 (arr. Kirchner) Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E b D929 Chamber Music Season

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season/ Spotlight on Steven Osborne

Wednesday 11 June 7.30 pm Monday 9 June 1.00 pm Sunday 8 June 11.30 am

The King’s Consort Carolyn Sampson soprano Robert King conductor

Artists and programme to be announced

ATOS Trio Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’

Programme to include: Finzi Dies Natalis Op. 8 Britten Les Illuminations Op. 18

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Early Music and Baroque Series

Alina Ibragimova

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Sussie Ahlburg

Dorothea Röschmann

Jim Rakete

Cyprien Katsaris

June 2014 Thursday 12 June 7.30 pm

Sunday 15 June 11.30 am

Tuesday 17 June 7.30 pm

Tabea Zimmermann viola

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Alexandre Tharaud piano

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director

Marais Suite in D minor Bach Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV1029 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38

Charpentier Sonate à huit in C H548; La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488

Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin BWV1001 György Kurtág From Signs, Games and Messages: In Nomine – all’ongherese; ... eine Blume für Tabea ...; Kromatikus feleselös Reger Suite in G minor Op. 131d No. 1 Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1 Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Wednesday 18 June 7.30 pm

Chamber Music Season Sunday 15 June 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Malcolm Martineau piano

Iestyn Davies countertenor

Friday 13 June 7.00 pm

Other artists to be announced

Doric String Quartet

SONGLIVES: SCHUBERT

Programme to be announced

Haydn String Quartet in B b Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Song Recital Series

Chamber Music Season

Monday 16 June 1.00 pm

Song Recital Series/Songlives

Alban Gerhardt cello Saturday 14 June 7.30 pm

Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E b BWV1010 Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

Anna Prohaska soprano Eric Schneider piano BEHIND THE LINES 1914 / 2014

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Mahler, Ives, Eisler and Liszt Song Recital Series

Anna Prohaska

Monika Rittershaus

Iestyn Davies

Marco Borggreve

Christian Curnyn

Benjamin Ealovega

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June 2014 Thursday 19 June 7.30 pm

Friday 20 June 10.00 pm

Sunday 22 June 7.30 pm

Charles Owen piano

Marc-André Hamelin piano

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54 Bartók Piano Sonata Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959

Programme to be announced

Pianist to be announced

Marc-André Hamelin Artist in Residence

Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

Friday 20 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Oliver Knussen Upon one note Gerald Barry Aeneas and Dido Colin Matthews Elegiac Chaconne Tansy Davies Undertow A Clementi Berceuse Philip Cashian Caprichos Henze Adagio adagio Carter Epigrams (London première); Rigmarole Peter Maxwell Davies Unbroken Circle John Woolrich In the mirrors of asleep Thomas Adès Court Studies £15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series

Song Recital Series Saturday 21 June 7.30 pm Monday 23 June 1.00 pm

Stephen Hough piano Wagner Albumblatt Strauss Träumerei from Stimmungsbilder Op. 9 No. 4 Bruckner Erinnerung Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

Daniel Behle tenor Oliver Schnyder piano Programme to be announced

London Pianoforte Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 22 June 11.30 am

Tuesday 24 June 7.30 pm

Ensemble Marsyas

Dunedin Consort Iestyn Davies countertenor

Fasch Sinfonia in Bb for 2 oboes, strings and basso continuo Handel Trio Sonata in G minor HWV393 Fasch Sonata in C for bassoon and basso continuo Handel Oboe Sonata in F HWV363a Bach Movement from a lute suite Zelenka Sonata No. 5 for 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo

Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte (Lamento); Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B b BWV1051; Cantata BWV54 ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’; Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041; Cantata BWV170 ‘Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust’ Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

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Stephen Hough

Grant Hiroshima

Alice Coote

Benjamin Ealovega

June 2014 Wednesday 25 June 7.30 pm

Friday 27 June 7.00 pm

Sunday 29 June 11.30 am

Carolin Widmann violin Alexander Lonquich piano

Soprano to be announced

Melvyn Tan fortepiano

Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in A minor D385 Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Chamber Music Season

Thursday 26 June 7.30 pm

Michael Schade tenor Malcolm Martineau piano Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Komm, liebe Zither, komm; Das Lied der Trennung Schubert Adelaide; Täglich zu singen; An eine Quelle; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Der Blumenbrief; Ganymed Mozart Cantata: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Strauss Wozu noch, Mädchen, soll es Frommen; Breit über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar; Schön sind, doch kalt die Himmelssterne; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten; Hoffen und wieder verzagen; Mein Herz ist stumm Brahms An eine Äolsharfe; Lerchengesang; Heimweh II; Auf dem See Strauss Allerseelen; Befreit; Morgen; Nichts; Zueignung

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Marx Erinnerung Pfitzner Lockung Schoeck Nacht Marx Die Elfe Zemlinsky Waldesgespräch Korngold Nachtwanderer Marx Waldseligkeit Reger Waldseligkeit Webern Tief von Fern; Nachtgebet der Braut Schoenberg Warnung Webern Aufblick Strauss Befreit; Mein Auge Marx Frage und Antwort Reger Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint Mahler Liebst du um Schönheit from Five Rückert Lieder Marx Regen Debussy Il pleure dans mon cœur from Ariettes oubliées Delius Il pleure dans mon cœur Marx Nocturne; Nachtgebet; Selige Nacht; Valse de Chopin; Pierrot Dandy

Sunday 29 June 4.00 pm

Ekaterina Siurina soprano Rodion Pogossov baritone Iain Burnside piano Programme to include songs by Rachmaninov Song Recital Series

Monday 30 June 1.00 pm

Kopelman Quartet Programme to be announced

Song Recital Series /Joseph Marx Song Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Saturday 28 June 7.30 pm

Veronika Eberle violin Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Series

Song Recital Series

Michael Schade

Christopher Maltman baritone Simon Lepper piano

Harald Hoffmann

Christopher Maltman

Pia Clodi

Ekaterina Siurina

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June/July 2014 Monday 30 June 7.30 pm

Friday 4 July 7.00 pm

Sunday 6 July 11.30 am

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano

The Prince Consort

Trio di Parma

Anna Leese soprano Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Tim Mead countertenor Andrew Staples tenor Jacques Imbrailo baritone Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, piano

Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

A programme of Schubert’s best-loved songs and partsongs, to include: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Der Tod und das Mädchen; Die junge Nonne; Die Forelle; Ganymed; Heidenröslein; Fischerweise; An die Musik; An Silvia; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Der Zwerg; Im Frühling; Nacht und Träume; Erlkönig; Gebet

Mark Padmore tenor Julius Drake piano

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Tuesday 1 July 7.30 pm

Antoine Tamestit viola Pianist to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Wednesday 2 July 7.30 pm

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Monday 7 July 1.00 pm

Programme to be announced

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Song Recital Series

Alexandre Tharaud piano Mozart Suite K399; Praeambulum; Gigue in G K574; Piano Sonata in A K331 Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (arr. A Tharaud) Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 3 July 7.30 pm

Tuesday 8 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 5 July 7.30 pm

Nikolai Demidenko piano Chopin A Selection of Waltzes and Mazurkas Rachmaninov Corelli Variations Op. 42 Medtner Tema con variazioni; Dithyrambe in E b Op. 10 No. 2 London Pianoforte Series

Django Bates piano Peter Bruun drums Petter Eldh double bass Django Bates and his trio ‘Beloved’ explore the music of Charlie Parker £15 £20 £25 £30

Lucy Crowe soprano Anna Tilbrook piano

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Joshua Redman Jazz Series

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Antoine Tamestit

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Eric Larrayadieu

Nikolai Demidenko

Mercedes Segovia

Django Bates

Richard Kaby

July 2014 Thursday 10 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 12 July 7.30 pm

Monday 14 July 1.00 pm

L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Philippe Jaroussky countertenor

Christiane Karg soprano

Trio di Clarone clarinet trio

PIanist to be announced

Sabine Meyer clarinet Reiner Wehle clarinet Wolfgang Meyer clarinet

Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

MUSIC FOR A WHILE

Mendelssohn Concert Piece in D minor Op. 114 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Bruch Eight pieces for clarinet, cello and piano Op. 83 (selection) Schumann 6 pieces in canonic form Op. 56 (selection) Mendelssohn Concert Piece in F minor Op. 113

Music by Purcell This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration, without an interval

Sunday 13 July 11.30 am

Alasdair Beatson piano

£18 £25 £30 £35

Booking for this concert opens to Friends on 3 May, to Mailing List Subscribers on 14 May & to the General Public on 31 May.

Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Early Music and Baroque Series / L’Arpeggiata Baroque Residency BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Sunday 13 July 4.00 pm Friday 11 July 7.00 pm

Lise de la Salle piano Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 17 Ravel Miroirs Debussy Préludes (selection) London Pianoforte Series

Justina Gringyte mezzo-soprano Andrei Bondarenko baritone Iain Burnside piano Programme to include songs by Rachmaninov

Thursday 17 July 7.30 pm

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Schubert Schwanengesang Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte

Song Recital Series

Friday 11 July 10.00 pm

Song Recital Series

Veronika Eberle violin Steven Isserlis cello Michael Collins clarinet Alexander Melnikov piano

Saturday 19 July 7.30 pm

Simon Trpcˇeski piano Programme to be announced

Programme to include Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps)

London Pianoforte Series

Chamber Music Season/Music in the Shadow of War

Lise de la Salle

Marco Borggreve/Naïve

Justina Gringyte

Lukasz Rajchert

Trio di Clarone

Marion Koell/Avi-music

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July 2014 Sunday 20 July 11.30 am

Tuesday 22 July 7.30 pm

Saturday 26 July 7.30 pm

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello

Chen Reiss soprano Charles Spencer piano

The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director

Works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky

Programme to be announced

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Song Recital Series

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Pianist to be announced

Programme to be announced Sunday 20 July 7.30 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Wednesday 23 July 7.30 pm

The Brook Street Band Nicki Kennedy soprano Simon Desbruslais trumpet

Garrick Ohlsson piano

TRIUMPH OVER TRAGEDY A programme of vibrant and distinctive vocal and instrumental chamber works by Bach, Handel and Telemann, to include Bach’s sparkling and celebratory motet Jauchzet Gott, contrasted with a dramatic Handel cantata.

Sunday 27 July 11.30 am

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’ Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Works by Griffes Smetana Czech Dances London Pianoforte Series

Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Friday 25 July 7.00 pm & 10.00 pm

Early Music and Baroque Series

Catherine Leonard violin Hugh Tinney piano

Amjad Ali Khan sarod Amaan Ali Khan sarod Ayaan Ali Khan sarod

Monday 21 July 7.30 pm

Peter Donohoe piano OPUS 1 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 1 Tchaikovsky Scherzo à la russe Op. 1 No. 1; Impromptu in E b minor Op. 1 No. 2 Bartók Rhapsody Op. 1 Schumann Theme and variations on the name ‘Abegg’ Op. 1 Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1

SENIA BANGASH GHARANA: THE 7TH GENERATION Chamber Music Season

London Pianoforte Series

Peter Donohoe

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Sussie Ahlburg

Chen Reiss

Baldvinsson & Betz

Amjad Ali Khan

Dilip Bhatia

BOOKING INFORMATION Booking Dates Booking Period 1 Friday 30 August – Tuesday 31 December 2013 Friends – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Friday 3 May 2013

Box Office Hours

Car Parking

7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.

Days without an evening concert 10.00am– 5.00pm. No advance booking during the half-hour prior to performance.

There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.

Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.

Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the Box Office for further details or visit our website.

Telephone Bookings

General Public – By telephone/online from Friday 31 May 2013

7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.

Days without an evening concert 10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge for each transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.

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Postal Bookings

Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach the Box Office by Tuesday 14 May 2013

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper limit, and add an administration charge of £2.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.

Email: (not for bookings) boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Online Bookings

Tickets

Online booking is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you can select your own seat. There is a non-refundable £1.00 administration charge.

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Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into four price ranges Stalls C – M: Highest price Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price

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Tickets for Concessions Where a concession (concs) ticket price is listed these are available to students, senior citizens and the unemployed.

OXFORD CIRCUS BON D STREET

Group Bookings Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability.

A–D BALCONY

Restaurant/Bar

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Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and bars serving pre-concert and interval refreshments.

Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or call 020 7258 8292 for further information.

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Tubes: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street.

This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you.

Telephone: 020 7935 2141 Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary.

Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega Cover design by WLP Ltd. www.whitelabelproductions.co.uk Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, learning and community programmes: Honorary Patrons Aubrey Adams Donald Kahn OBE Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan

Season Patrons Aubrey Adams* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* William and Alex de Winton* The Fidelio Charitable Trust David B Rockwell* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* ’Scilla and Tony Thornton* and several anonymous donors

Corporate Supporters Capital International Limited (corporate matched giving) Clifford Chance LLP Complete Coffee Ltd Duncan Lawrie Private Banking Hutton Collins Partners LLP Lloyds TSB Private Banking Martin Randall Travel Ltd Oracle Capital Group Rosenblatt Solicitors Rothschild

Donors and Sponsors Mr Eric Abraham and Miss Natasha Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Elaine Adair Tony and Marion Allen* The Andor Charitable Trust David and Jacqueline Ansell* Mr and Mrs Stephen Arthur Arts Council England

Anthony Austin David and Margaret Beaton Alan Bell-Berry The Bernarr Rainbow Trust Mr Nicholas J Bez Mrs Arline Blass* Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Britten–Pears Foundation Gwen and Stanley Burnton* Clive Butler Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Charities Advisory Trust The City Bridge Trust City of Westminster Edwin C Cohen* The John S Cohen Foundation Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Licia Crystal Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Anthony Davis* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Dorset Foundation The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust J L Drewitt Dunard Fund Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis The Elton Family Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan The Equitable Charitable Trust Mrs Susan Feakin Peter and Sonia Field John and Amy Ford S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Friends of Wigmore Hall Jonathan Gaisman* The Garrick Charitable Trust J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

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John Gilhooly John and Lauren Goldsmith* The Goldsmiths Company Charity Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Elizabeth Gordon The Gordon Foundation Charles Green Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Haringey Music Service André and Rosalie Hoffmann Gay Huey Evans* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Simone Hyman* John Lyon’s Charity Marc Jourdren* Donald and Jeanne Kahn* Jerome Karet* David and Louise Kaye* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Maryly La Follette* Su Lesser and Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS* The Leverhulme Trust Dame Felicity Lott* The Loveday Charitable Trust Simon and Pamela Majaro Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Milton Damerel Trust The Monument Trust Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntosh The Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust Lionel and Lynn Persey* The Piano Fund Dr Clive Potter* Oliver Prenn Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Rayne Foundation Charles Rose*

Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Ruth Rothbarth* The Rubinstein Circle RVW Trust The Sampimon Trust The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Victoria Sharp* Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Joe and Lucy Smouha John Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson* Tower Hamlets Arts Music and Education Service John and Ann Tusa* Marina Vaizey* Kathleen Verelst* Robin Vousden* Gerry Wakelin Marie-Luise Waldeck Andrew and Hilary Walker* Michael and Rosemary Warburg Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement David and Frances Waters* Anne and David Weizmann* Mrs Mary Weston The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Philip and Emeline Winston* The Wolfson Foundation Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Simon Yates and Kevin Roon* The Zochonis Charitable Trust and several anonymous donors * also Rubinstein Circle members

Details correct as at March 2013

Maxim Vengerov violin Itamar Golan piano BACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano SCHUBERT Winterreise

Simon Trpčeski piano Works by SCHUBERT, BACH & LISZT

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